Pete Oxford / Deer antlers and dried seahorses being sold at Kunming Traditional Medicine Market, Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Man dispensing traditional medicine, Beijing, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Jars of medicines at the Kunming Traditional Medicine Market. Yunnan Province China 2006

Pete Oxford / Dried seahorses for sale at Kunming Traditional Medicine Market. Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Dried ants for sale at Kunming Traditional Medicine Market, Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Dried geckos for sale at Kunming Traditional Medicine Market, Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Dried centipedes for sale in Kunming Traditional Medicine Market, Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Dried snakes for sale in Kunming Traditional Medicine Market, Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Dried snakes for sale in Kunming Traditional Medicine Market, Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Animal penises for sale at Kunming Traditional Medicine Market, Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Packet containing starfish and other dried wildlife used for traditional medecine, Kunming Traditional Medicine Market, Yunnan Province, China 2006

Pete Oxford / Antandroy people at street market selling plants used in medicinal trade, Faux Cap Market, Southern MADAGASCAR. 2005

Nick Gordon / A Piaroa Indian sniffing Yeppo, Venezuela

Nick Gordon / Nick Gordon, film-maker, camerman and photographer, taking Yoppo drug with medicine man in order to film ceremony, Venezuela

Nick Gordon / Medicine man at Piaroa funderal cave, with ancient cave paintings, Venezuela

Jabruson / Dried snake (Agkistrodon acutus) sold for medicine. Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

David Tipling / Pipe fish on sale for medicine, China

David Tipling / Dried snakes on sale for medicine purposes, Beijing, China

David Tipling / Dried Seahorses for sale for medical use (Hippocampus) China

Pete Oxford / Dried snakes for sale in traditional medicine market, Yunnan, China

Pete Oxford / Common Pillbug (Armadillidium vulgare) group dried for sale in traditional medicine market, Yunnan, China

Pete Oxford / Various animals and animal parts for sale in traditional medicine market, Yunnan, China

Pete Oxford / Flying lizards used for medicine, Food market, Xian, Shaanxi province, China

James Aldred / By'Aka pygmy woman collecting medicinal plants from the rainforest, Ndoki-Nouabale NP, Congo Rep. 2003

Pete Oxford / Scorpions used for medicine Food market, Xian, Shaanxi province, China.

Ian Lockwood / Indian spiny tailed lizards {Uromastyx hadwickii} on sale by medicine man, Tamil Nadu, India

Vivek Menon / Medicine market with various traditional medical products for sale, Uttar Pradesh, India

Pete Oxford / Tockay gecko in glass jar (medicinal use) {Gekko gecko} Yunnan province, China

Patricio Robles Gil / Comca'ac Seri Indian selling medicinal plants, Sonora, Mexico

Ashok Jain / Chinese plasters made from Musk deer and Tiger bone.

RHONDA KLEVANSKY / Zulu healer, sangoma, at Durban herbal medicine market, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Pete Oxford / Sea horses, lizards and other wildlife for sale in Chinese medicine shop Penang, Malaysia

Pete Oxford / Tiger penis for sale in Chinese medicine shop Penang, Malaysia

Pete Oxford / Colorado indian spraying from mouth a curative concoction over a woman to be healed, Santo Domingo de Los Colorados, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Colorado indian man spraying from mouth a medicinal concoction over a woman to be healed, Santo Domingo de Los Colorados, Ecuador

Pete Oxford / Colorado indian man preparing medical concoction, Santo Domingo de Los Colorados, Ecuador

Jim Brandenburg / Man shaving horn of endangered rhino in medicine shop, Namibia

Jim Brandenburg / Rhinoceros horn products used as aphrodisiacs, Namibia

Pete Oxford / Dried ants used in traditional Chinese medicine, Yunnan, China

Mark Moffett / Wines instilled with snake are sold in specialty store, salesman shows Pangolin wine, Hanoi, Vietnam

Mark Moffett / Snake is skinned alive at a Hanoi restaurant, blood, heart and genitals at right are thought to confer virility, Vietnam

John Cancalosi / Zulu traditional healer, South Africa

Pete Oxford / Dried pill bugs / Woodlice for medicinal use, Yunnan, China

Pete Oxford / Dried snakes for medicinal use, Yunnan, China

Juergen Freund / Dried seahorses for sale in market, Philippines

Ian Lockwood / Medicine man sells Spiny tailed lizards {Uromastyx hardwicki}, Tamil Nadu India

Niall Benvie / Sap from Greater celandine {Chelidonium majus} is used to treat warts. Estonia

Juergen Freund / Seahorses for sale for medicinal use (Hippocampus) Sabah. Borneo

MORLEY READ / Jungle remedies for sale in Lago Agrio (oil town), Ecuador, South America

Pete Oxford / Various animal parts on sale for medicinal use Yunnan, China

JIM CLARE / Foot of Mountain Tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) used as aphrodisiac. Ecuador, South America

Eric Baccega / Bile product from Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) used in traditional Chinese medicine,

Eric Baccega / Selection of Bile products from Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Dr. Axel Gebauer / Dried beef testicles and penises, used in traditional Chinese medicine, Ximen market, Xining, Qinghai Province, Tibet, China

Pete Oxford / Live snakes for food and medicine, food market, Xian, Shaanxi province, China

Pete Oxford / Traditional medicine stall at food market, Xian, Shaanxi province, China

Pete Oxford / Dried scorpions for sale for medicinal use Yunnan China

Konrad Wothe / Traditional medicines at market, Irian Jaya, New Guinea, Indonesia

Mark Moffett / Store proprietor with live snake in specialty store selling snake wine, Hanoi, Vietnam

Pete Oxford / Tokay geckos {Tokay tokay} bottled for medicinal use Yunnan, China

Pete Oxford / Tokay geckos {Tokay tokay} dried for medicinal use Yunnan China

Pete Oxford / Dried snakes for medicinal use Yunnan China