Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Behind them the rain forest rises to the pinnacle of a long-dormant volcano. Beneath the thatched roof, a gaggle of children intently watches the proceedings. The teacher is Salome Isofea, 30, a young healer who is demonstrating her art. The man opposite her, a Westerner named Paul Alan Cox, is no ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this exotic setting, the paramount chief of the nearby village of Falealupo. To people here, he is known as Nafanua...
...before this can be done, Salome explains, there is another crucial part of the cure. Holding a coconut-shell bowl containing ashes, she flicks them in the direction of Cox, who is playing the patient. When he soberly asks why the ashes are necessary, she replies that they enhance "spiritual transmission" between healer and patient. "We Westerners have to suspend judgment at these times," says Cox. "Look at our own belief in doctors wearing white coats. In Western culture that uniform is comparable to the 'spiritual transmission' she sees...
Moments like this are typical of Cox's experience as he scours the world's flora in search of plants that will benefit Western medicine. Cox has spent years in Samoa interviewing or apprenticing himself to traditional healers. He has also traveled throughout the South Pacific, as well as in Southeast Asia, South America, East Africa and as far north as Sweden's Lapland. In Samoa alone, healers have led him and his colleagues to 74 medicinal plants that might prove useful...
...this reason, the discovery of young practicing healers like Salome delights Cox, who believes that only people like her can prevent the loss of centuries of knowledge. If he can carry Salome's knowledge to the developed world in the form of plants whose myriad chemical compounds might help combat incurable diseases--notably cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer's--the impetus to save the Samoan rain forest, and all forests, will be that much stronger...
...minutes later, Colorado's Cox was hurt while attempting to smother the ball in front of the goal. Daniels made a show of joining the medical staff to examine his player, which Wheaton protested loudly. This time, not even a warning was issued. Instead, the referee rebuked Wheaton and then restarted play...