Interestingly at one point of time quite long ago when involved in exports of agricultural products from West Africa I got interested in the business of medicinal plants . For my research I was very fortunate to lay my hands on a book which was a comparative study of the treatment of a large number of diseases by " modern medicine " and " native medicine" by the so called " witch doctors "
It was seen that the preparations concocted by the local medicine man ( consisting of barks of specific trees , roots , leaves etc ) for a specific ailment contained THE SAME elements and chemicals which modern medicine was going to combine to treat it and wanted the plants for extraction.
Also , animals instinctively know about plants and treat themselves
Eg: Dogs eat certain types of leaves and grass to settle their stomachs .
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