Chris Kilham, Medicine Hunter, Meets With Harvesters And Trade Officials In Search Of Potent Herbs

From Mother Nature Network's Jennifer Nelson: "We're here in the middle of the Amazon jungle today," booms Chris Kilham, an adventurer and medicine hunter, as he's about to show us the benefits of maqui berries or green coffee bean extract or any number of up-and-coming plants in medicinal healing. Kilham, whom the New York Times calls part-David Attenborough, part-Indiana Jones, is an ethnobotanist who travels the world hunting for medicinal plants that can be used in novel ways. More than anything, he's an expressive, talk-with-his-hands pulpit-pounding advocate for herbs. Kilham looks like a better-looking version of Juan Valdez. (Yes, the famous fictional coffee character who represented...