Our green and living world
the wisdom to save it
1st ed.
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Contributions
- Ayensu, Edward S. - Contributor
Publication
1984 - Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C, District of Columbia
Language
English
Word Count
63,750 words, Guess
Page Count
255 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2998708M
- ISBN-100895990164
- OCLC Control Number10877474
- OCLC Control Numberourgreenlivingwo0000unse
- Library of Congress Control Number84600181
and 2 more
- Goodreads3897984
- LibraryThing1933877
Classifications
- DDC333.95/16
- LCCQH75 .O93 1984
Description
The authors survey the ways in which we are losing our ability to survive biologically and present new approaches to regaining it. They examine our planet's green life-layer from every point of view: cultural and artistic, religious, ecological, economic, and scientific. These world respected botanists highlight the true worth of the Plant Kingdom for our lives - from Amazonian rain forests to African violets or tropical foliage plants at the windowsill. India and other lands help provide us with a remarkable arsenal of plant-derived medicines that cure leukemia and other malignancies, that control hypertension, and that also prevent the body from rejecting transplanted organs. Mexico, for instance, produces the wild yams that provide chemical raw materials for the contraceptive pill. And in Kenya, we meet a young wife who brings her to a respected dispenser of traditional medicines extracted from jungle greenery.
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