The Jungle pharmacy. Nature's remedy
Description
Do the world's rainforests contain a cure for cancer and AIDS? This intriguing program travels to Jakarta, Surabaya, and the jungles of Kalimantan to investigate the preparation and use of natural remedies to combat illnesses such as skin fungus, malaria, and even AIDS. But logging continues unabated, even as ethnobiologists from the National Cancer Institute and the Harvard Medical School scramble to quantify the curative properties of indigenous plants. Will the jungle pharmacy disappear before it can be understood? A Deutsche Welle Production.
Runtime
27 min
Subjects
- Diseases (446)
- Alternative medicine (137)
- Plants (88)
- Diagnostic microbiology (19)
- Pharmacology (63)
- Plant diversity (33)
- Microbiology (62)
- Climatology (68)
- Medicine (401)
- Environmental sciences (779)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2005], c1995
Database
Films on Demand
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