Prospecting for drugs in ancient texts.
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Abstract
The mass screening of plants in the search for new drugs is vastly expensive and inefficient. It would be cheaper and perhaps more productive to re-examine plant remedies described in ancient and mediaeval texts.
Medical subject headings
- Medicine, Traditional
- Plants, Medicinal