BOT 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jane Goodall, Ethnobotany, Dietary Supplement
30 Mar 2016
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Food supplements including vitamins, amino acids and herbal extracts. 90% of the world relies primarily on plants for medicine new medicines are discovered every year pollen found in the graves of neanderthals, must have eaten plants. Jane goodall found that primates use herbs as medicine, soothe stomach pain. Herbal= collecion of drawing of plants with a writen descripion of the plant and what it can be used for medicinally. Ethnobotany= scieniic study of past or present day use of plants by tradiional socieies. Ethno= study of people, botany= study of plants. Whole plant vs. consumpion of acive ingredients. Use trial and error to discover how to use 3000 types of plants. How plants are used for: food, building, fabrics, medicine, spirituality. Must ind an indigenous society with speciic qualiies: locaion- lorisic diversity, duraion in the area, tradiion of healers. Screened thousands of plants in 1960 s to ind taxol- ani cancer compounds. Ethnobotanical approach- ask the medicine man or shaman.
