Nature Medicine
Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets. - Review - book review Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets, by Mark J. Plotkin (Viking, 2000; $24.95; 214 pp.)
Ethnobotanist Plotkin ranges far afield to report on the race to discover and bottle natural remedies, from eriostatin (a protein from Asian pit vipers that appears to inhibit the spread of melanoma cells) to myrrh (a fragrance used as an antibiotic in the ancient world).
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