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Medicinal Treasures of the Rainforest: Discover the healing resources of the Amazon - 1 views

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  • A look at the botanical treasures, both known and undiscovered, that exist within tropical rainforests.
  • The abundant botanical resources of tropical forests have already provided tangible medical advances; yet only 1 percent of the known plant and animal species have been thoroughly examined for their medicinal potentials.
  • 20 or 25 percent of the world's plant species will be extinct by the year 2000.
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  • Approximately 7,000 medical compounds prescribed by Western doctors are derived from plants
  • These drugs had an estimated retail value of US$43 billion in 1985
  • For maladies ranging from nagging headaches to lethal contagions such as malaria, rainforest medicines have provided modern society with a variety of cures and pain relievers.
  • • Quinine, an aid in the cure of malaria, is an alkaloid extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree found in Latin America and Africa. • From the deadly poisonous bark of various curare lianas, used by generations of indigenous peoples in Latin America, has been isolated the alkaloid d-turbocuarine, which is used to treat such diseases as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and other muscular disorders. It also permits tonsillectomies, eye, abdominal and other kinds of surgery due to its anesthetic qualities. • From Africa, Madagascar's rosy periwinkle provides two important anti-tumor agents. One provides for a 99 percent chance of remission in cases of lymphocytic leukemia. The other offers a life in remission to 58 percent of Hodgkin's Disease sufferers. In 1960, only 19 percent had a chance for survival. Commercial sales of drugs derived from this one plant are about US$160 million a year. • Without wild yams from Mexico and Guatemala, society would be without diosgenin and cortisone, the active ingredients in birth control pills. Until recently this plant provided the world with its entire supply of diosgenin.
  • Finally, rainforest plants provide aids for research.
  • testing agents for potentially harmful food and drug products
  • Tropical forests offer hope for safer contraceptives for both women and men. The exponential growth of world population clearly demonstrates the need for more reliable and effectiv
  • e birth control methods. Worldwide, approximately 4,000 plant species have been shown to offer contraceptive possibilities.
  • The chemical components of plants that medicine men use in healing rites could conceivably be building blocks for new drugs or even cures for such scourges as cancer or AIDS.
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Anthurium bonplandii, Anthurium bonplandii subsp. guayanum, Anthurium bonplandii (G.S. ... - 0 views

www.exoticrainforest.com/thurium%20bonplandii%20pc.html

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  • Namsai Sethpornpong on 22 May 12
     
    This is a website that sells exotic plants for their own benefit. 
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Uses of trees - 1 views

www.botanical-online.com/usesoftrees.htm

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      Namsai Sethpornpong on 22 May 12
       
      Trees for Obtention of Medicines and Natural Remedies: This is going to be my point about why I need to keep the Rainforest. I need to use this exotic plants to help me to come up with more medicines to benefit for us. 
  • Namsai Sethpornpong on 22 May 12
     
    This is about the uses of the trees and plants in the rain forest. 
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