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For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now Western medicine, faced with health crises such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, has begun to look to the healing plants used by indigenous peoples to develop powerful new medicines. Nowhere is the search more promising than in the Amazon, the world's largest tropical forest, home to a quarter of all botanical species on this planetas well as hundreds of Indian tribes whose medicinal plants have never been studied by Western scientists. In Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice, ethnobotanist Mark J. Plotkin recounts his travels and studies with some of the most powerful Amazonian shamans, who taught him the plant lore their tribes have spent thousands of years gleaning from the rain forest.For more than a decade, Dr. Plotkin has raced against time to harvest and record new plants before the rain forests' fragile ecosystems succumb to overdevelopmentand before the Indians abandon their own culture and learning for the seductive appeal of Western material culture. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice relates nine of the author's quests, taking the reader along on a wild odyssey as he participates in healing rituals; discovers the secret of curare, the lethal arrow poison that kills in minutes; tries the hallucinogenic snuff epena that enables the Indians to speak with their spirit world; and earns the respect and fellowship of the mysterious shamans as he proves that he shares both their endurance and their reverence for the rain forest. Mark Plotkin combines the Darwinian spirit of the great writer-explorers of the nineteenth centurycurious, discursive, and rigorously scientificwith a very modern concern for the erosion of our environment and the vanishing culture of native peoples. Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice relates An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice has Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest eBook: au Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon jetzt kaufen Amazonde Prime testen Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest at Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches The Paperback of the Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest by Mark In Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches Buy Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest on FREE Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest In Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice ethnobotanist Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest Tales of a Shaman s Apprentice ethnobotanist
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