Footnotes to Medicinal Plant Proposal

  • 1. Cox PA & Balick MJ 1994 The Ethnobotanical Approach to Drug Discovery. Scientific American 270(6):82-87
  • 2. Ferris, T The Mindıs Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context, Bantam Books, New York, 1992 p.196
  • 3. Balick MJ & Cox PA Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996 p.183
  • 4. Balick MJ & Cox PA Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996 p.39
  • 5. Arvigo R & Balick M Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize. Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, WI, 1993 p. xv
  • 6. Arvigo R & Balick M Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize. Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, WI, 1993 p. xvii
  • 7. Arvigo R & Balick M Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize. Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, WI, 1993 p. xvii
  • 8. Balick MJ & Cox PA Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996 p.184-186
  • 9. Balick MJ & Cox PA Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996 p.186
  • 10. Balick MJ & Cox PA Plants, People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany. Scientific American Library, New York, 1996 p.186
  • 11. Plotkin, MJ Tales of a Shamanıs Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazonian Rain Forest. Viking, New York, 1993 p. 6
  • 12. Cragg GM & Boyd MR Drug Development at the National Cancer Institute in Balick MJ, Elisabetsky E, & Laird SA (eds) Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest Columbia University Press, New York, 1996 pp121-132
  • 13. Riddle JM, Estes JW, & Russell JC: ³Ever Since Eve. . .Birth Control in the Ancient World.² Archaeology 47(2): 30-35 (1994) as cited by Tyler VE Plant Drugs, Healing Herbs, and Phytomedicinals Herbalgram 33(supp):46 (1995)
  • 14. Duke JA Medicinal Plants in Health Care in India in Balick MJ, Elisabetsky E, & Laird SA (eds) Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest Columbia University Press, New York, 1996 p.271
  • 15. Farnsworth N in Griggs B Green Pharmacy: The History and Evolution of Western Herbal Medicine. Healing Arts Press, Rochester, Vermont 1991 p.x
  • 16. Daly DC & Limbach CF The Contribution of the Physician in Balick MJ, Elisabetsky E, & Laird SA (eds) Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest Columbia University Press, New York, 1996 p.53
  • 17. The Tico Times Vol.lI, No.41, Oct 11,1996
  • 18. Sheets PD & McKee B (eds) Archeology, Volcanism and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica University of Texas Press, Austin, 1994 p.18
  • 19. Mahaney N, Matthews MH, & Vargas AB Macrobotanical Remains of the Proyecto Prehistorico Arenal in Sheets PD & McKee B (eds) Archeology, Volcanism and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica University of Texas Press, Austin, 1994 p.308 The use of Croton medicinally is also documented in Arvigo R & Balick M Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize Lotus Press, Twin Lakes, WI, 1993 p.150-151
  • 20. there is published information on the use of medicinal plants by the KéköLdi of southeastern Costa Rica; see appendix A: KéköLdi Medicinal Plants
  • 21. John W. Hoopes, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Kansas, personal communication 3/5/97
  • 22. Elisabetsky E, Trajber R, & Ming LC Appendix: Manual for Plant Collections in Balick MJ, Elisabetsky E, & Laird SA (eds) Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest: Biodiversity and its Importance to Human Health Columbia University Press, New York, 1996. see also Medicinal Plant Collection Data Sheet
  • 23. Martin GJ Ethnobotany: A Methods Manual Chapman & Hall, London, 1995 pp.28-65
  • 24. The National Institute for Biodiversity (INBio) located in Costa Rica is cataloguing all the plant species of the country.
  • 25. Valery Terwilliger, professor of Geography and reforestation researcher, University of Kansas, personal communication, 3/16/97
  • 26. Green Arrow Guide to Central America: Ecotourism: Conservation Connections: Ecolodge San Luis & Biological Station (webpage). see also Lieberman M, Lieberman D, & Paralta R Forests are not just swiss cheese: canopy stereogeometry of non-gaps in tropical forests Ecology 70:550-552, 1989
  • 27. Arenal Conservation Area informational pamphlet
  • 28. Sheets, PD & McKee BR Archeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica University of Texas Press, Austin, 1994 pp.7-8