🌳 Willow bark → Aspirin
🌷 Foxglove → Digoxin (Heart Medication)
🌸 Opium Poppy → Morphine (Pain)
🌲 Pacific Yew → Taxol (Cancer)
For thousands of years, Indigenous healers and herbalists mastered the art of plant medicine—and now, science is catching up! 🧬🌱
The Natural Products Industry is booming with a plethora of great product iterations from biodiversity… but what do companies do to protect and promote biodiversity and the traditional knowledge which are the basis for the industry?
Let’s hear your stories of how you share benefits and protect biodiversity! 👇🌿 🌍
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