De Plantis Toxicariis e mundo novo tropicale Commentationes – XXXVIII: Ethnopharmacological and alkaloidal notes on plants of the northwest Amazon

• Schultes, Richard Evans ^[1] ; Raffauf, Robert F. ^[1]
  1. [1] Harvard University

     Harvard University

     City of Cambridge, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Caldasia, ISSN-e 2357-3759, ISSN 0366-5232, Vol. 15, Nº. 71-75, 1986, págs. 331-363
• Idioma: inglés
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    Research on the biodynamic plants of the northwest Amazon, especially that part lying within the borders of Colombia, has continued to add to the large number of plants with biological activity-plants deserving of scientific study for the benefit of mankind.

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    Research on the biodynamic plants of the northwest Amazon, especially that part lying within the borders of Colombia, has continued to add to the large number of plants with biological activity-plants deserving of scientific study for the benefit of mankind.This series has continued to note the uses of plants as medicines, poisons or narcotics that the Indians of the northwest Amazon have, through millennia of trial and error, discovered to possess some activity on the human or animal body. It is on these plants-rather perhaps than on a random sampling of the 80.000 species in the Amazon Valley-that modern phytochemists and pharmacologists should focus their attention.