We’re big fans of the work of Rosita Arvigo and have stumbled on a treasure trove of videos that cover many dimensions of her work.
She’s a scholar-practitioner of traditional Maya healing with many decades of experience.
The details of preparing food and medicine are part of plant-based medicine and in this third video we visit with her in the kitchen.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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We’re big fans of the work of Rosita Arvigo and have stumbled on a treasure trove of videos that cover many dimensions of her work.
She’s a scholar-practitioner of traditional Maya healing with many decades of experience.
In this fourth video, Rosita covers the topic of forest bathing.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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We’re big fans of the work of Rosita Arvigo and have stumbled on a treasure trove of videos that cover many dimensions of her work.
She’s a scholar-practitioner of traditional Maya healing with many decades of experience.
In this fifth and final video, Rosita covers the topic of Maya abdominal massage which she considers one of the most important treasures of the Maya healing tradition she was trained in.
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Poet and farmer Wendell Berry offers a clear look at the problems we face in the world of industrial farms.
How do we treat the land? What are we doing when we see land and food as commodities instead of essential parts of life with real value?
The industrialization of agriculture has taken us away from an intelligent and affectionate connection with … Read more
All trees are wonders.
The Neem tree is a wonder piled on wonders.
A long, wide-ranging, somewhat rambling and very interesting – interview with the west’s leading expert on the Neem tree.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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On a recent trip to Morocco (my first trip there and my first trip out of the country in nearly five years), I got to see how an intact culture deals with health issues.
Drugs, no.
Plants, yes.
One of the plants that is treasured in Morocco and elsewhere is one many of us think of as just a culinary herb.
Wrong. It is a very potent healer. (And when … Read more
We’re continuing our exploration of Aegean herb culture.
Here’s a surprising modern validation of one of the “tall tales” of the Odyssey involving “magic” plants.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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A primer on what’s true and not true about mushrooms.
Medicinal Mushrooms
Fly Agaric
The Misunderstood Magic Mushroom
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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From one of our favorite educators. He talks about plants in the context of where and how they live, not just how useful they are.
Plant Wisdom has been quiet because some people have been fighting the madness of the last two years on a nearly full time basis.
I’m one of them.
For those who still don’t get it, here’s a story about a plant that “scientists” have … Read more
