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Saturday, March 5, 2005

The Pharmacy In The Forest

The American experience is deeply rooted in the lore of Native Americans. ... nature's pharmacy in exchange for high-priced flu remedies sold in stores. ... http://www.motherearthnews.com/arc/6162/
Mother Earth News: The Pharmacy in the Forest - Shows pictures of plants, gives recipes

 

The Pharmacy In The Forest

May apple source of the versatle podophyllum powder.

As you walk down the aisles of your local drugstore seeing the array of brightly colored bottles and boxes whose contents are designed to treat an almost endless variety of ailments, could you ever imagine them as flowers once growing on a forest floor or as bark cut from one of its trees? Is there even a remote relationship between the life of the woods and the bottles on the shelf?

 

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