The three-credit course entitled “The Shaman’s Pharmacy” offers an introduction to the Amazon rainforest, its biodiversity, and some of the medicinal plants found in that forest. The name of ...

The traditional shamans and healers of the Amazon Rainforest have been working with some of the most remarkable plants which have both powerful medicinal and psycho-spiritual properties for many ...

The Amazon rainforest houses tens of thousands of ... elder shamans pass on their expertise of medicinal plants and healing rituals to apprentices — children who are otherwise increasingly ...

Some like curare of the Amazon are ... by spirits of the rainforest. Whatever the mechanism, evidence from Amazonian natives suggests that indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants can develop ...

The Amazon Rainforest is an economic powerhouse, providing resources such as timber, rubber, and medicinal plants. Its loss would have significant economic repercussions, particularly for ...

Plotkin is an ethnobotanist, a scientist who studies medicinal plants and the rainforest shamans who best know how use these botanical medicines. Plotkin is also the President of the Amazon ...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Brazilian rainforest have been using medicinal plants. But this knowledge is in danger of disappearing. The deforestation of the Brazilianrainforest ...

A rainforest is a tropical ... native to the tropical rainforests of the Amazon River basin in South America. One of the largest and most beautiful plants in the world, the victoria amazonica ...

accounting for about half the total emissions of gaseous organic compounds from plants. "The Amazon rainforest alone is responsible for over a quarter of these emissions," explains atmospheric ...

Many of the wildlife species found in the Amazon Rainforest are endemic. Diversity of plant species There are over 40,000 plant species in the Amazon Rainforest, out of which, a very large number ...