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