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Natural potential

Traditional plant medicines have been used by people from diverse cultures throughout history and some bioactives have gone on to be the basis of modern treatments – morphine was derived from the seed pods of the opium poppy, for instance, while the bark of the South American cinchona tree yields the malaria drug quinine.

However, there are many more plant compounds with the potential to be effective,

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