Plants That Cure: Plants as a Source for Medicines, from Pharmaceuticals to Herbal Remedies

A full-color illustrated guide to the natural history of plants with medicinal properties

Of the nearly 400,000 plants that have evolved on Earth, around seven percent of them have been used in traditional herbal medicine or as local remedies. More recently, scientific studies have revealed how plants may be sources of important medicines, often in the form of single isolated compounds. Plants That Cure explores these critical compounds and the plants that produce them.

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