Medicine quest
Subtitle: in search of nature's healing secrets
By: Mark J. Plotkin ; [illustrations by Laurence Richardson].
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Pharmacognosy -- Popular works; Medicinal plants
Genres: Popular works.
Description: From the freezing Arctic to steamy rainforests, Plotkin explores mankind's search for new medicines.
Notes: Originally published: New York : Viking, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.
Table of contents: title: Some poison for your pain?; title: The eternal quest; title: The fungus among us; title: Drugs from bugs; title: Hideous healers; title: Snakes in the caduceus; title: Under the sea; title: Plants of the apes; title: Shamans; title: Sugar sickness.