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Article: The Medicine Man - Paul Cox is one of a small breed of scientists trying to bring Native healing methods to the modern world.
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- National Wildlife
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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PAUL COX sat in a thatched hut on the Samoan island of Savaii and listened patiently as traditional healer Epenesa Mauigoa described dozens of different herbal remedies. His ears pricked when the elderly woman got to number 37 on her list: a treatment for hepatitis using the stem wood of the mamala tree. This was exactly what Cox, a researcher from Utah, had traveled thousands of miles to learn about: A plant used by indigenous people that might also hold promise for a new medicine in the West.
Cox is one of the country's preeminent ethnobotanists-scientists who often travel to remote parts of the globe and immerse themselves in local culture, and whose findings ...
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