| What Good Is The
Rainforest? |
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| Some medicines extracted from tropical forest plants: |
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| 1. | Curare
(muscle relaxant used in surgery) |
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| 2. | Diosgenin
(birth control pills, arthritis, asthma) |
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| 3. | Ouabain
(heart medication) |
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| 4. | Quinine
(malaria, pneumonia, |
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| 5. Emetine (bronchitis, dysentery) |
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| 6. Vincristine/Vinblastine (Hodgkin's
disease, leukemia) |
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