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Barbasco is the name of
several plants that
contain poisonous chemical compounds that have been used for
fishing by
indigenous po****tions of the Americas:...
- The
Mexican barbasco trade was the
trade of the diosgenin-rich yam
species Dioscorea mexicana,
Dioscorea floribunda and
Dioscorea composita which emerged...
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first highly successful instance was the
discovery in 1947 of the
tuber "
Barbasco" (Dioscorea composita)
which has a high
content of diosgenin, revolutionizing...
- fish-poison-bean or
Vogel tephrosia (English), tefrósia (Portuguese) or
barbasco guineano (Spanish), is a
flowering plant species in the
genus Tephrosia...
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negro (Dioscorea mexicana) and
Barbasco (Dioscorea composita). The
demand for
barbasco by
Syntex initiated the
Mexican barbasco trade. As the
American Chemistry...
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Lonchocarpus urucu, or
barbasco, is
plant in the
family Fabaceae. It is
native to the
tropical forests of Peru, as well as of
Brazil and Guyana, growing...
- or sapogenins. The
efforts of Syntex, a
company involved in the
Mexican barbasco trade, used
Dioscorea mexicana to
produce the
sapogenin diosgenin in the...
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contraceptive pill and
synthetic cortisone – and to the
development of the
Mexican barbasco trade. He was born on
March 12, 1902, in Hagerstown, Maryland. He received...
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first highly successful instance being the
discovery in 1947 of the
tuber barbasco (Dioscorea composita)
which has a high
content of diosgenin, revolutionizing...
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manufacture of
hormones from D.
mexicana at Syntex.
Later the
Mexican barbasco trade focused instead on
Dioscorea composita instead, as this
variety has...
