Ethnobotany News

How rainforest shamans treat disease

Physician Christopher Herndon explores how Amazon shamans diagnose and treat disease. Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive use of medicinal plants…

Dirt-munching helps protect chimps from malaria

Dirt-munching helps protect chimps from malaria Dirt-munching helps protect chimps from malaria mongabay.com January 10, 2008 Soil ingestion helps chimps protect themselves from malaria, reports a new study published in…