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Originally Posted by jblum315

Wasn't James Duke part of the Duke tobacco family? Just asking?

That was James Buchanan Duke.....I just looked it up. Link below.


James Buchanan Duke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

p.s.
I believe there also was a "Duke" who was involved in a white supremacist type organization.

However, the Dr. James A. Duke I referred to, studied plants in the rain forest and all over, in fact. Many of the things he suggested have now been turned into big bucks by the pharmaceutical companies.......we have an inlaw who is a chemist by trade, and a Ph.D, who worked for the big Drug Companies.......they manufacture the same natural ingredients found in plants, etc. into synthetic versions and charge a lot more.........than if you say , bought an aloe plant..........my mom always kept an aloe plant on her window ledge.......great for any skin problem...........or the capcasin in icy hot is really from red peppers or whatnot. You can even grow some of your own remedies..........the old Europeans and Asians, back in the old countries, knew all of this, without the benefit of an education............or Ph.D. for that matter.
They knew what garlic could do and so forth and so on..............

Back in our childhoods and beyond, doctors did NOT TEST TO THE EXTREME like they do now.
They could tell by looking at you, at various parts of your body, "what might be going on".
Strange but it is true that even big medicine is now advising NOT TO HAVE SO MANY TESTS as were suggested or required a decade ago............could it be that they've discovered all that radiation is NOT GOOD for the human body????? Just saying.

BIO



Duke James



Job
Lecturer, International Expeditions Inc
Main Location
Helena, AL




GENERAL INFO






JAMES A. DUKE, PhD
Former Economic Botanist with USDA Germplasm Resources Laboratory Scientific Consultant
Dr. James Duke is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina. Following a 2½-year tour of military duty, he took his Ph.D. in Botany at the University of North Carolina, moving on to postdoctoral activities at Washington University and the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri, where he assumed professor and curator duties, respectively. He worked for extended periods in Panama and Colombia on studies addressing crop diversification and medicinal plant utilization. Duke has served as a leader on over 20 programs to the Amazon rainforest since 1991. A popular lecturer, he has appeared on many radio and television programs. His publications are numerous. Some of his most recent include Handbook of Northeastern Indian Medicinal Plants, CRC Handbook of Agricultural Energy Potential for Developing Countries and The Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary. His most recent publication is entitled The Green Pharmacy. In addition to a distinguished 30-year career with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Dr. Duke sits on the board of directors and advisory councils of numerous organizations involved in plant medicine and the rainforest. Dr. Duke was presented with the 2000 Distinguished Economic Botanist award from the Society for Economic Botany. Currently he is working on a second draft of his Amazing Amazon Food, featuring twenty Amazon herbs that can be exceedingly useful as “food farmacy”