"Garcia de Orta (or Garcia d'Orta) (1501? \u2013 1568) was a Portuguese Renaissance Sephardi Jewish physician, herbalist and naturalist. He was a pioneer of tropical medicine, pharmacognosy and ethnobotany, working mainly in Goa, then a Portuguese colony in India. Garcia de Orta used an experimental approach to the identification and use of herbal medicines rather than the traditional approach of using received knowledge."@en . "1568Z"^^ . . "Portuguese botanist" . . "Garcia de Orta"@en . . . . "1501Z"^^ . "Orta, Garcia de"@en . . .