The mass screening of plants in the search for new drugs is vastly expensive and inefficient. It would be cheaper and perhaps more productive to re-examine plant remedies described in ancient and mediaeval texts.
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Holland, B. Prospecting for drugs in ancient texts. Nature 369, 702 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/369702a0
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