The Amazon rainforest is perhaps the best drug store in the world. Dr. Drauzio Varella leads monthly expeditions up the river in search of natural medicines that he believes could change the future of his profession and eventually bring new hope to cancer victims around the world. He also believes that medical research could also hold the key to slowing rainforest destruction. Many drugs that are in use today are made from rainforest plants. Out of an estimated 80,000 species of flower-bearing plants in the Amazon, only about a fifth have been identified --just imagine the possibilities and the cures that are growing, waiting to be discovered.
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