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Hodgin, Deanna
Seeking cures in the jungle. (rain forests as sources of medicinal plants for the pharmaceutical industry)
Insight. v7 Oct 7 '91 p30(2)
Shaman Pharmaceuticals focuses its biotechnological research on developing drugs from medicinal plants found in rain forests in South America, Asia and Africa. Company president Lisa Conte advocates the role ethnobotany in the pharmaceutical industry.

MOERMAN, DANIEL E
Desmanthus illinoensis
'Research Reports in Ethnobotany: Medicinal Plants of Native America vol.1&2'; University of Michigan of Anthropology, Technical Reports #19; QK99.N7 M64 (1986)
Desmanthus Illinoensis, Fabaceae: PAIUTE EYE MEDICINE. Five seeds placed in eye at night to cure trachoma; washed out in morning. PAWNEE DERMATOLOGICAL AID. Acuan illinoensis. Spider Bean. Decoction of leaves used as a wash to cure the itch.

SCHULTES; et al.
Botanical Museum Leaflets.
Botanical Museum leaflets, Harvard University. v. 1-30, no. 4; June 7, 1932- fall 1986. Cambridge, Mass., Botanical Museum, Harvard University. QK1.H24
SUBJECTS: Ethnobotany, Hallucinogenic Plants

Stoffle, Richard W.; Halmo, David B.; Evans, Michael J.
Calculating the cultural significance of American Indian plants: Paiute and Shoshone ethnobotany at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
American Anthropologist v92 p416-32 June 1990
SUBJECTS: Indians of North America/Plants and plant lore Mountains/Nevada

The Wilderness of Mind: Sacred Plants in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Marlene
Dobkin de Rios. Sage Publications. Beverly Hills, London. 1976. 79 pages. velobound in Ethnobotany and Shamanism in South America. [box v4]  [ZEFF LIBRARY]

The National Agricultural Library (NAL-AGIS)
offers a variety of plant-related, genetic and ethnobotanical searchable databases.
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xx not yy means xx must be present, but not yy

PhytochemDB--plant chemicals is a searchable phytochemistry database
at theNational Agricultural Library.
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xx and yy means xx and yy, both must be present for a "hit"
xx not yy means xx must be present, but not yy

MPNADB--medicinal plants of Native America is a searchable database
at theNational Agricultural Library.
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xx and yy means xx and yy, both must be present for a "hit"
xx not yy means xx must be present, but not yy

FoodplantDB--Native American food plants is a searchable database
at theNational Agricultural Library.
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xx and yy means xx and yy, both must be present for a "hit"
xx not yy means xx must be present, but not yy

EthnobotDB--worldwide plant uses is a searchable ethnobotany database
at the National Agricultural Library.
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xx not yy means xx must be present, but not yy
Ethnobotanical Plants and Topics of Interest:

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The Entheogen Law Reporter
Issue No. Eight - Fall 1995 pp.70-80:
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    • Ethnobotany and Chemistry of Psychoactive Plants - Field courses in Palenque.
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  • DEA Rejects Church's Request for Equal Access to Sacramental Peyote.


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