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The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge for Medicinal Plant Research
04:52 - 15:53 (11:00)
This article explores the importance of indigenous peoples in the process of identifying and researching medicinal plants in the Amazon rainforest.
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In protected areas without any indigenous people, there's no guidance on which plants are essential for investigations, leading to the erosion of the rainforest and extinction of species like jaguars and macaws.
04:52 - 09:57 (05:04)
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In protected areas without any indigenous people, there's no guidance on which plants are essential for investigations, leading to the erosion of the rainforest and extinction of species like jaguars and macaws. This article considers ethnobotanist Karen Stryer’s experiences in the Eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais in the 1980s.
ChapterThe Importance of Indigenous Knowledge for Medicinal Plant Research
Episode#537: The Hidden Knowledge of Animals — Mark Plotkin on Nature’s Medicine Cabinet
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Dr. Dan Janssen writes about the possibility of plant-eating vertebrates consuming certain plants as a way of writing their own prescriptions for medicinal purposes, while Harvard scientists studied if primates modify their diets to control diarrhea and kill parasites.
09:57 - 15:53 (05:55)
Summary
Dr. Dan Janssen writes about the possibility of plant-eating vertebrates consuming certain plants as a way of writing their own prescriptions for medicinal purposes, while Harvard scientists studied if primates modify their diets to control diarrhea and kill parasites.