Anti-oxidents from the Rainforest
Needless to say, the Amazonian Rainforest is replete with herbs offering a wide variety of health benefits. But beyond specific health benefits, like the ability of stevia to regulate blood pressure or sangre de drago to accelerate wound healing or chanca piedra to break kidney stones into a myriad of small stones, [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Medicinal Herbs'
Anti-oxidents from the rainforest
July 7, 2006
Rainforest shamans
June 15, 2005
How did rainforest shamans gain their boundless knowledge on medicinal plants?.
The short answer — no one really knows
Rhettt A. Butler, mongabay.com
May 14, 2005
Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long been aware that rainforest dwellers have an astounding knowledge of medicinal plants. Kaiapo shaman in the Amazon.
For thousands of years, indigenous [...]
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