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Plants of the Gods: S6E7. The Medicinal Plants and Fungi of the Amazon

Plants of the Gods: S6E7. The Medicinal Plants and Fungi of the Amazon

Update: 2024-10-02
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The Amazon rainforest - teeming with unstudied plants, fungi, and shamanic cultures - has long been considered an almost inexhaustible source of healing plants and potions. 
  
In this episode - Dr. Mark Plotkin, an ethnobotanist who has been studying the plants and peoples of Amazonia for four decades - provides a detailed and incisive overview of the medicinal power and potential of the world’s greatest rainforest! 

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Plants of the Gods: S6E7. The Medicinal Plants and Fungi of the Amazon

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