In the 1960s, scientists studying the venom of a Brazilian pit viper found a compound that lowered blood pressure, and it led to captopril, one of the first widely used blood pressure pills, approved in the US in 1981
(Image credit: Wikimedia Commons) Long before modern medical science emerged, nature held answers to healing, protection and healthy living within its bounds. Across several communities and spiritual cosmologies, the natural world has been viewed as the guide for the human world, as have the species that reside in it. Among the myriad spcies that have…
