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http://www.amazon.com/Herbal-Secrets-Rainforest-Powerful-Medicinal/dp/0761517340Book DescriptionRelease date: September 16, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0761517340 | ISBN-13: 978-0761517344 | Edition: 1Rainforests are home to an amazing abundance of plant life—just two and a half acres of Amazon rainforest are estimated to contain 900 tons of plants! And researchers have barely begun to tap the medicinal properties of rainforest herbs, trees, and flowers.Gathering information from indigenous peoples, natural health practitioners, and scientists from around the world, Herbal Secrets of the Rainforest profiles more than fifty rainforest plants, and includes details on:• Medicinal properties• History of use by rainforest inhabitants• Current uses around the world and in herbal medicine today• Methods of preparation• Natural chemicals• Summaries of scientific research• And more, such as helpful tables, illustrations, and recipes for herbal remediesFrom the age-old healing practices of shamans to current scientific research, this wealth of ancient and modern knowledge is now available in one source for health-conscious consumers. This unique book is the one health guide you will reach for again and again.About the AuthorLeslie Taylor is the founder of /Raintree Nutrition, specializing in the marketing and development of over 100 rainforest botanicals and other products using sustainable rainforest resources. She has been researching and documenting medicinal rainforest plants for over 15 years.Please contribute back by OCRing and Spellcheck/Proofreading this book. I recommend ABBYY Finereader 11 (or similar) for doing this work in a relatively easy way. If you plan to do that please leave a comment here so the effort won’t be duplicated by others. Please upload back the final pdf. Thank you.Please note that the high quality scan images are posted here for a specific purpose – to make it easy to OCR/spellcheck the book and not spend 100 hours doing that from a crappy, lossy compressed pdfs that are sometimes posted here. So please don’t waste your time asking why this is not a pdf file. Instead please contribute a few hours of your time and OCR and proofread the posted book. Thank you.