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Central African rainforestsBBC
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Great apes known to self-medicate by selecting plants with healing properties.
Researchers in Gabon studied tropical plants eaten by wild gorillas.
They identified four trees with medicinal effects.
One showed promise in fighting superbugs.
The bark of the trees contained chemicals with medicinal effect, from phenols to flavonoids.
All four plants showed antibacterial activity against at least one multidrug-resistant strain of E. coli.
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