Tropical rainforests, which account for only seven percent of the world's total land mass, harbor as much as half of all known varieties of plants. Experts say that just a four-square-mile area of rainforest may contain as many as 1,500 different types of flowering plants and 750 species of trees, all which have evolved specialized survival mechanisms over the millennia that mankind is just starting to learn how to appropriate for its own purposes.
Rainforests are a Rich Source of Medicines
Scattered pockets of native peoples around the world have known about the healing properties of rainforest plants for centuries and perhaps longer. But only since World War II has the modern world begun to take notice, and scores of drug companies today work in tandem with conservationists, native groups and various governments to find, catalog and synthesize rainforest plants for their medicinal value.
Rainforest Plants Produce Life-saving Medicines
Some 120 prescription drugs sold worldwide today are derived directly from rainforest plants. And according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, more than two-thirds of all medicines found to have cancer-fighting properties come from rainforest plants. Examples abound. Ingredients obtained and synthesized from a now-extinct periwinkle plant found only in Madagascar (until deforestation wiped it out) have increased the chances of survival for children with leukemia from 20 percent to 80 percent.
Some of the compounds in rainforest plants are also used to treat malaria, Heart disease, bronchitis, hypertension, rheumatism, Diabetes, muscle tension, Arthritis, glaucoma, dysentery and tuberculosis, among other health problems. And many commercially available anesthetics, enzymes, hormones, laxatives, cough mixtures, antibiotics and antiseptics are also derived from rainforest plants and herbs.
here are some examples:
Tropical rainforests, which account for only seven percent of the world's total land mass, harbor as much as half of all known varieties of plants. Experts say that just a four-square-mile area of rainforest may contain as many as 1,500 different types of flowering plants and 750 species of trees, all which have evolved specialized survival mechanisms over the millennia that mankind is just starting to learn how to appropriate for its own purposes.
Rainforests are a Rich Source of Medicines
Scattered pockets of native peoples around the world have known about the healing properties of rainforest plants for centuries and perhaps longer. But only since World War II has the modern world begun to take notice, and scores of drug companies today work in tandem with conservationists, native groups and various governments to find, catalog and synthesize rainforest plants for their medicinal value.
Rainforest Plants Produce Life-saving Medicines
Some 120 prescription drugs sold worldwide today are derived directly from rainforest plants. And according to the U.S. National Cancer Institute, more than two-thirds of all medicines found to have cancer-fighting properties come from rainforest plants. Examples abound. Ingredients obtained and synthesized from a now-extinct periwinkle plant found only in Madagascar (until deforestation wiped it out) have increased the chances of survival for children with leukemia from 20 percent to 80 percent.
Some of the compounds in rainforest plants are also used to treat malaria, Heart disease, bronchitis, hypertension, rheumatism, diabetes, muscle tension, arthritis, glaucoma, dysentery and tuberculosis, among other health problems. And many commercially available anesthetics, enzymes, hormones, laxatives, cough mixtures, antibiotics and antiseptics are also derived from rainforest plants and herbs.
here are some examples:
Vincristine extracted from the rainforest plant periwinkle, is one of the world's most powerful anticancer drugs. It has dramatically increased the survival rate for acute childhood leukemia since its discovery Prostialin has exhibited strong activity against HIV in tests.
some meds are from trees known as cocoa tree's, annatto lipstick tree's, Trumpet tree's, Clavilla, Curares and one no one knows off is the gum tree found in the amazon rainforest.
some people say rainorests produceal different medicines that are not all known yet
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They should visit the amazon rainforest because they whant to take fresh air to breath, and to get some medicins for some of the people that are sick , there are medicins in the rainforest to help people that are sick
the non living thins in the daintree rainforest is rocks, clouds, soil.
Catastrophic events such as floods, hurricanes, and mild tornadoes occur in a rainforest.
the rainforest produces erasers, medicine and other things
a lot of stuff.
medicine
Medicines can be derived from plants; the Amazon rainforest has pelnty of plants.
oxygen,medicine,and wood
1. rainforest are important because they provide us with medicine for oue illnesses
rain forest give us lots of medicine that we can shuve up are ***
It does produce over 40% of today's medicine.
Medicine, fruits, antibiotics, and/or sugar cane
it's 1/4
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some people say rainorests produceal different medicines that are not all known yet