Medicine quest : in search of nature's healing secrets /
Mark J. Plotkin ; [illustrations by Laurence Richardson].
- New York : Viking, 2000.
- xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and index.
Some poison for your pain? -- The eternal quest -- The fungus among us -- Drugs from bugs -- Hideous healers -- The snakes in the caduceus -- Under the sea -- Plants of the apes -- Shamans -- The sugar sickness.