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Nicole accompanied me on a trip to the Rainforest when she was 84 years old.</div> <bR> <div> She really helped me to recognize that the real treasures of the Rainforest are its life-giving herbs. Her love of the Amazon and its amazing botanicals continues to inspire our mission at Amazon Herb Co/Rainforest Bio-Energetics. Our shared vision of making these natural healing plants available to everyone, creating a billion dollar cash crop, and halting the destruction of the Amazonian Rainforest continues in her honor.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> John Easterling</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></b></div> <div> <I>The</I><I><B> </b></I><I>New York Times </I></div> <div>      Nicole Maxwell, a free-spirited San Francisco debutante who </div> <div> plunged into the remote Amazon jungles of Ecuador and Peru </div> <div> and came out with a trove of medicinal plants she said </div> <div> Indians used to cure virtually </div> <div> every known ailment, died May 5 at Haverhill Care Center </div> <div> in suburban West Palm Beach. She was 92, and left no immediate survivors.</div> <bR> <div>       Mrs. Maxwell, the author of the 1961 book <I><B>Witch Doctor's Apprentice,</b></I><I> </I>had spent the last decades of her life in largely vain efforts to interest drug companies in her discoveries. </div> <bR> <div>       For a woman who was the toast of Paris in the 1920s, dancing ballet with the Opera, dallying with a raft of admirers and </div> <div> posing nude for artists, Mrs. Maxwell made an abrupt </div> <div> change in her life</div> <bR> <div>       After a 12-year marriage to an Air Force officer ended in 1945 </div> <div> (I married a lieutenant and divorced a brigadier general”), she headed </div> <div> to South America to visit friends in Bolivia, later saying that since she </div> <div> had never been attracted to Latin men, she hoped to avoid distracting </div> <div> entanglements.</div> <bR> <div>        Mrs. Maxwell stayed in South America for 12 years. It was during </div> <div> a venture into the jungle on a visit to Quito, Ecuador, in 1947 that </div> <div> Mrs. Maxwell first became fascinated with the jungles of the upper </div> <div> Amazon basin and its indigenous tribes. Hacking her way through the </div> <div> jungle with an Indian guide the next year, she suffered a deep machete </div> <div> gash on her arm.</div> <div>        With Mrs. Maxwell wondering whether she would bleed to death or </div> <div> die from infection, the guide ran into the jungle, returned with some </div> <div> dark-red tree sap and had her drink it. When the bleeding stopped </div> <div> within minutes and the wound healed rapidly without a scar, Mrs. </div> <div> Maxwell knew she had found her life's work: ferreting out remedies </div> <div> the Indians used for centuries and introducing them to the world.</div> <div> In the decade after her machete experience, </div> <div>      </div> <div>      Mrs. Maxwell made dozens of expeditions to the remotest regions </div> <div> of the upper Amazon, befriending the local Indians and slowly learning </div> <div> the secrets of their vast medical lore. In 1958, after obtaining a small </div> <div> grant from a drug company, </div> <div>      Mrs. Maxwell made a special expedition, obtaining samples of many </div> <div> whose medicinal properties she had been cataloging.</div> <div>       </div> <div>         <I><B>When she returned and shipped her plants to the </b></I></div> <div> <I><B>drug company, she was dismayed to discover the </b></I></div> <div> <I><B>company had regarded her trek as a publicity stunt </b></I></div> <div> <I><B>and had no scientific interest in her findings.</b></I></div> <bR> <div>         Hoping to salvage something from her work, she wrote </div> <div> <I><B>Witch Doctor's Apprentice</b></I><I>. </I></div> <div>          More adventure story than medical manual, the book, revised in 1975 and in 1990 (Citadel Press), never the less described a host of plants she said the Indians used to prevent tooth decay, painlessly extract teeth, dissolve kidney stones, heal burns and cure or prevent scores of other maladies. Mrs. Maxwell returned to South America and continued her research until 1986, eventually collecting </div> <div> more than 350 plants used to treat more than 100 common ailments.</div> <div>       </div> <div>       Her dream that the plants of the upper Amazon would become </div> <div> a multibillion-dollar cash crop and halt the destruction of the rainforest </div> <div> eluded her. But Mrs. Maxwell remained confident that her work would </div> <div> be eventually be recognized by mainstream: Science.</div> <div> “As soon as I'm gone,” she told a friend," they'll come running.</div> <bR> <div> End</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width=1 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>