TY - JOUR KW - medicinal plants KW - ethnobotany KW - ethnopharmacology AU - Philip H. Abelson AB - Basically, this article just discusses the usefulness of plants as medicine. It goes on the objective that the National Cancer Institute has created a superior technique for screening plants for useful medicinal properties. Some of the economic aspects of the medicinal plant industry are discussed. Lastly, it discusses the number of plants that have been tested as opposed to the number of plants in existence. It states that many have come from tropical forests, especially rainforests, and at the rate that they are being destroyed we may lose valuable plants before we have a chance to test them. AN - 90-00699 BT - Science C1 - Science C6 - 0036-8075 DA - 02/1990 DB - JSTOR DO - 10.1126/science.2300807 IS - 4942 LA - English N2 - Basically, this article just discusses the usefulness of plants as medicine. It goes on the objective that the National Cancer Institute has created a superior technique for screening plants for useful medicinal properties. Some of the economic aspects of the medicinal plant industry are discussed. Lastly, it discusses the number of plants that have been tested as opposed to the number of plants in existence. It states that many have come from tropical forests, especially rainforests, and at the rate that they are being destroyed we may lose valuable plants before we have a chance to test them. PY - 1990 EP - 513 T2 - Science TI - Medicine from plants UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2873781 VL - 247 ER -