Literature DB >> 8008059

Prospecting for drugs in ancient texts.

B K Holland1.   

Abstract

The mass screening of plants in the search for new drugs is vastly expensive and inefficient. It would be cheaper and perhaps more productive to re-examine plant remedies described in ancient and mediaeval texts.

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Year:  1994        PMID: 8008059     DOI: 10.1038/369702a0

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Nature        ISSN: 0028-0836            Impact factor:   49.962


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