Amazon’s Green Gold

Amazon’s Green Gold

by | Aug 9, 2010 | News Articles

-By Marcela Sabino: COHA Research Group Biotechnology firms, pharmaceutical corporations, laboratories and university researchers are scouring the Amazon rainforest in a profit-driven pursuit. Seeking the Amazon’s “green gold,” they are turning to local indigenous...

Ethnopharmacology of Ska María Pastora

Ethnopharmacology of Ska María Pastora

by | Jan 1, 2002 | Research

-By Leander J. Valdes III, Jose Luis Diaz, Ara G. Paul Summary Salvia divinorum is a perennial labiate used for curing and divination by the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico. The psychotropic effects the plant produces are compared to those of the other hallucinogens...