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• 21 May 13
  

  titles18

  List of medicinal plants in the amazon rain forest and their purposes in healing

  Pharmaceuticals Indigenous peoples Tourism

• 23 May 12
  

  Mei Lin Nall

  This is a site that shows different amazonian plants that can be used for medicine. 

  Pharmaceutical Scientist

• 12 Oct 09
  

  Esteban Cabera
  • The Amazon rainforest has many different plants that can be used   as herbal medicines. Some of the most important medicines come from   the Amazon. They have been used for hundreds and hundreds of years.   These plants can be deadly if taken in large doses, but in small doses   they can be very helpful. They can be used to cure headaches, skin   irritation, high blood pressures, and many other diseases. Here are   some of them.
• 09 Sep 09
  

  Kengo M

  good site for amazon rainforest
  

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  • The   Amazon Rainforest

     

    By Alec

          The Amazon rainforest has many different plants that can be used   as herbal medicines. Some of the most important medicines come from   the Amazon. They have been used for hundreds and hundreds of years.   These plants can be deadly if taken in large doses, but in small doses   they can be very helpful. They can be used to cure headaches, skin   irritation, high blood pressures, and many other diseases. Here are   some of them.
       

    

     

    White Trillium

      The white trillium has three petals, three sepals,   and three leaves. If the leaves are chewed, it can help cure snake   bites. If the plant’s petals are chewed, they can help ease   childbirth, and the sepals if chewed are used to help cure fevers.   

    

     

    Cinchona Tree (Cinchona officinalis)

     

    The bark of this tree is used to make Quinine, a medicine that   helps treat Malaria, a serious disease. A number of various other   chemicals can also be made from Cinchona, and these chemicals include   cinchonine, cinchonidine and quinidine. However, quinine has been   replaced by other drugs such as chloroquine and mefloquine, and   now quinine is rarely used to treat malaria.

       

    

     

    Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea)

     

    The leaves of this plant contain digitalis, a substance used   to treat heart problems. When taken in large doses it can produce   palpitations and dizziness, but when taken in smaller doses it can   help the heart beat more slowly. This medicine had many effects,   and sometimes it cured in miraculous ways, but it mostly produced   violent reactions, occasionally killing because it was taken in   very large doses. The foxglove tea is used as a morning tea to aid   in birth control.

       

    

     

    Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum)

     

    The opium poppy is used to make Morphine and   Codeine, two drugs that are used as painkillers. The opium gum may   be crudely refined and smoked, or converted to morphine and heroin.  
• 11 Mar 08
  

  Nishant Mehta

  amazon as8 rainforest scientificcommunity

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