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Article: Herbal Healing: A powerful and growing force in modern medicine
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- The Ojibwe News
- Article date:
- December 7, 1995
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Brenda C. Coleman
Ojibwe News, The
12-07-1995
Herbal Healing: A powerful and growing force in modern medicine.
In the jungles of South America, a 17th-century Jesuit missionary discovered that Indians were using a tree bark to cure fevers such as malaria. His discovery gave the world quinine.
Since then, herbal medicine has come a long way.
It is still practiced in its basic form in both primitive and modern societies. And it gave rise to high-tech research and manufacturing that no primitive healer would recognize.
For example, tons of leaves from a Madagascan periwinkle plant are harvested yearly to make precious ounces of a powerful drug against childhood leukemia. And scientists are ...
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