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cord-329881-9vnz5zzg	Garcia, Sònia	Pandemics and Traditional Plant-Based Remedies. A Historical-Botanical Review in the Era of COVID19	2020-08-28		.txt	text/plain	6221	265	49	I will revisit the Middle Ages black death, in which a plant-based lotion (the four thieves vinegar) showed some effectiveness; the smallpox, a viral disease that lead to the discovery of vaccination but for which the native Americans had a plant ally, an interesting carnivorous plant species; tuberculosis and the use of garlic; the Spanish flu and the widespread recommendation of eating onions, among other plant-based treatments; and malaria, whose first effective treatment, quinine, came from the bark of a Peruvian tree, properties already known by the Quechua people. Here I present a non-systematic review with a historical-botanical perspective on some of the most important pandemics that humanity has faced, and in some cases is still facing, and how certain plants or plantbased remedies have been used, and may continue being used, to treat these diseases, possibly including COVID19.	./cache/cord-329881-9vnz5zzg.txt	./txt/cord-329881-9vnz5zzg.txt