September 11, 1998
An Ethnobotanist and a Shaman Explore the Power and Promise of Medicinal Plants
By CAROLYN J. MOONEYEverything is magnified in the rain forest. Life looms larger, louder, hotter, brighter. There are trees blanketed with thorns, spiders the size of your hand, stinging ants that march in formation. There are plants that look like insects and insects that look like plants. So much life, so much steaminess, so much green! Even other colors are more intense here: the red juice of the achote
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