• Producer(s):

    FRANCE 5, RTBF, LIEURAC PRODUCTIONS, RADIO TELEVISAO PORTUGUESA

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2003

  • Language(s):

    English, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, DVD, INTERNET

Spiralling health costs and the limitations of the treatments available, plant medicine will play a larger part in medicine in the future.

In this programme, plant medicine and synthetic drugs are compared in terms of their effectiveness and their limitations.
New trends in healing are setting the pharmaceuticals companies and the medical establishment a real challenge. Spiralling health costs and the limitations of the treatments available, coupled with the growing vogue for alternative approaches to health and the body, suggest that plant medicine will play a larger part in medicine in the future. But if southern countries are to stand a chance of benefiting from this expansion, the wholesale looting of traditional plant medicines which is accompanying the "plant rush" must be halted - and the pharmaceuticals industry must be made to realise that it is not entitled to a monopoly of this new market.