Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous plants. Cultures have been using the environment around them for thousands of years. The use of plants were mentioned in the Code of Hammurabi in Babylon circa 1770 BC. The ancient Egyptians believed that plants had medicinal powers in the afterlife of the pharaohs (King and Veilleux WWW). Indigenous cultures of the rainforests and other areas still use plants …showed first 75 words of 2113 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2113 total…rainforest does contain plants with the cures to many awful diseases. It has been proven by the ethnobotanists and their research that the rainforests do contain some beneficial resources. No major discoveries for AIDS or cancer have been found yet, but at the rate that ethnobotanists are researching and discovering new treatments for illnesses, they may someday find the major ones. For right now, the discoveries that are being made are already helping many people.