Scientists obtain anticancer medicines from the elecampe, a wild...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Wed, 04/16/2008 - 23:00

Researchers from the Department of Organic Chemistry of the University of Granada state that the plant can also be used for antimigraine drugs.Another wild plant growing in the Bolivian Andes, the "Baccharis latifolia," has also been used to this end.

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