Medicine Trees of the Tropics

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8426
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Levingston, Robin; Zamora, Rogelio
Journal:	Unasylva
Volume:	35
Page(s):	7-11
Date:	1983
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8426
Sector:	Forestry
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Subject(s):	tropics trees medicine conservation natural resources reforestation
Abstract:	"Medicinal plants play an important role in the lives of rural people' particularly in remote parts of developing countries with few health facilities. Tropical forests are the source of a large proportion of the world's recognized medicinal plants. It is variously estimated that there are between 200000 and 700000 species of tropical flowering plants. Such a wealth of identified species, which have been in no sense thoroughly investigated, constitutes an enormous potential source of plant-derived chemicals useful to man."

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