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Plant-Medicine Magic |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE AND MEDICINE |
| Author: Peter Gorman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 2,640 Words, 17,361 Characters |
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The sound of the little thirty-six-horsepower diesel motor echoed off the forest walls on either bank of the river like a roar, shattering the silence. Black caiman sunning themselves on the banks slipped beneath the muddy water to escape the blare; bands of monkeys shrieked as they fled from the sound into the forest. Pairs of macaws, their blue, red, and gold feathers the brightest colors in all of Amazonia, squawked as they flew high overhead to get away.
There was no need to flee. The crew.of the forty-two-foot converted fishing boat making its way up the Rio Yivari, the border between Peru and Brazil, was not after skins or pets or trophy feathers. They were there to search out the curanderos, the healers at the occasional indigenous villages that dotted the sparsely popula...
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...n investigated for potential medical use in even the most cursory fashion. That percentage is even lower in Africa, where most of the population still depends directly on plants for their medicine.
That there is more to be discovered is clear. All that botanists like Tom Carlson want is for someone to send them out on a rainforest river somewhere in a converted fishing boat to go find them.
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