No Plants No Medicine - a podcast by The Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

from 2018-05-31T07:00:25

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Explore the deadly and life-saving chemicals found in plants with Dr Brett Summerell, Director of Science and Conservation at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Did you know that from tea tree oil to morphine, we use nearly 15,000 different plant species for medicinal purposes? In this episode you'll also get to visit an incredible tree at the Garden that contains a poisonous chemical that could be effective against the viruses causing HIV, dengue fever and Hepatitis C.

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