Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest
Subtitle: Biodiversity and its Importance to Human Health (Biology and Resource Management Series)
Contributors: Michael J. Balick (Editor); Elaine Elisabetsky (Editor); Sarah A. Laird (Editor)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: October 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780231101707
Subjects: Botany & plant sciences; Complementary Medicine; Deforestation; Forests, rainforests; Management of land & natural resources; Medical research; Materia Medica; Medical Botany; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Pharmacology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Ethnobotany; Materia medica, Vegetable; Rain forest plants; Traditional medicine
First sentence: SOMETIME in prehistory, in the part of the world that is now the country of Peru, a raging storm felled a giant tree that came to rest in a pool of stagnant water.