August 29, 2012
Ancestral Remedies to the Rescue Your pharmacist may not be handing you a pill bottle full of roots, leaves, and seeds, but what makes its way over the counter often originates with a plant. That’s the case with countless medicines and therapeutic treatments currently in use around the world, and likely many more to be discovered. On August 1st, the NYBG’s Dr. Michael Balick led a presentation on his experiences in Micronesia, where his interest wasn’t in pinning down new sources for medicinal plants, but recording and revitalizing the traditional medicine that first employed them. It’s a means of not only helping Micronesian locals to preserve ethnobotanical traditions, but to open up long-proven alternatives to globalized Western medicines, something not always in ready supply in some parts of the world. Click through for more on the New York ethnobotany conference, or head over to Plant Talk to read up on the NYBG scientists’ work in Micronesia. —MN

Ancestral Remedies to the Rescue

Your pharmacist may not be handing you a pill bottle full of roots, leaves, and seeds, but what makes its way over the counter often originates with a plant. That’s the case with countless medicines and therapeutic treatments currently in use around the world, and likely many more to be discovered.

On August 1st, the NYBG’s Dr. Michael Balick led a presentation on his experiences in Micronesia, where his interest wasn’t in pinning down new sources for medicinal plants, but recording and revitalizing the traditional medicine that first employed them. It’s a means of not only helping Micronesian locals to preserve ethnobotanical traditions, but to open up long-proven alternatives to globalized Western medicines, something not always in ready supply in some parts of the world.

Click through for more on the New York ethnobotany conference, or head over to Plant Talk to read up on the NYBG scientists’ work in Micronesia. —MN

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