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20 Mar 12
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Researchers say rainforests hold cures to ailments ranging from parasites to tumors, and believe that someday treatments for cancer and AIDS could be derived from a plant source.
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Plants have long been used by humans for treating a wide range of ills from childhood leukemia to hangovers.
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Western doctors have a long history of use as herbal remedies including quinine, opium, aspirin, and coca
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the people of Southeast Asian forests used 6,500 species, while Northwest Amazonian forest dwellers used 1300 species for health purposes.
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a study in Samoa found that 86% of the plants used by local healers yielded biological activity in humans
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approximately one half of the anti-cancer drugs developed since the 1960s having been derived from plants.
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Since very early on in human history, people have relied on medicinal plants to cure them of their various ills.
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11 Mar 08
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