Concluding David Bellamy 's series looking at the healing properties of plants.
Which Doctors? Many of the herbal medicines used in this country originally came from abroad. David Bellamy explores some of the more exotic herbal traditions - from China, India and North America - and talks to some of the practitioners about the plants they use. He shows us how the modem drug industry is adapting traditional remedies to modern medicine and ends the programme with a passionate plea to protect the world's forests, where there are still so many medicinal plants unknown to modern science. "The more we get to know the plants, the better chance we've got of saving the world," he says. Director Martin Gorst
Producer John Percival
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BBC BOOK: Blooming Bellamy has over 200 illustrations from the series and is available, price 15.99, from bookshops.