Rainforest herbs Belize: La Ruta Medicinal Pantí
In the middle of the exuberant tropical jungles of western Belize, the Pantí Rainforest Medicinal Trail gently meanders for approximately 500m/.8 mi through a sea of green trees and can be easily explored without a guide.
Costa Rica Medicinal Plant Project
Some of our commonly used pharmaceuticals are derived from tropical plants. There may be many as yet undiscovered equally useful medicines in the myriad unstudied species of the rain forest.
Ethnobotany: Useful and Medicinal Plants
Today, 25% of all prescription drugs are of botanical origin, many from the world's tropical rainforests.
Frontiers - Finding Medicines In The Forest
Can Shamans Point the Way?
The Holocaust of the Green Cathedral:Tropical Forest Deforestation
From Genesis of Eden.
Medicinal Plants in India
The English version of our exhibition 'Rainforest for Health' has started a tour through South India.
Plants of the Machiguenga
Dr. Ethan Russo, a neurologist, spent two months in Eastern Peru's rainforest looking for plants to treat headaches. You'll find photos of the plants he gathered here, along with botanical and medicinal information about them.
Raintree Plant List
We are continually adding more medicinal plants from the Amazon Rainforest as they are researched and documented.
Top Ten Ethnobotanical Plants
Brief overviews.