Story: Plant extracts

More links and websites

• 
  Bioactive natural products
  

  Food Research information looks
  into biologically active natural chemicals in New
  Zealand.

• Traditional
  plant use by Māori
  

  Landcare Research hosts a database of plants along with their traditional Maori uses.

More suggestions and sources

• Brooker, S. G., and others. New Zealand
  medicinal plants. Auckland: Heinemann,
  1987.
• Cooper, R. C., and R. C. Cambie. New
  Zealand's economic native plants. Auckland:
  Oxford University Press, 1991.
• Cox, P. A., and M. J. Balick. ‘The
  ethnobotanical approach to drug discovery.’
  Scientific American 270 (1994): 60–65.
• Mann, J. Murder, magic and medicine: from
  folkcures to pharmacology. Oxford: Oxford
  University Press, 1992.
• Reed, A. H. The story of the kauri.
  Wellington: Reed, 1954.
• Riley, Murdoch. Māori healing and
  herbal. Paraparaumu: Viking Sevenseas,
  1994.