Korean TV program goes deep into mugwart
– Ken McCarthy
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Category Archives: Medicine
Cayenne!
I like it when kitchen ingredients also happen to be superb plant medicines.
I also like it when someone takes a single herb and drills down deep into it.
There’s a reason this plant instantly took the world by storm when it was “discovered” in Latin America.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Uncommon common sense herbology
I like this guy’s thorough common sense approach.
Contrary to public belief plants are very powerful medicines.
Some work gently and are probably universally safe, but some also have significant effects that may not be helpful and might even hurt some.
A great example of this is the Mimosa tree.
Popular to talk about because it’s easy to find and deals with common ailments (depression and stress), but it causes … Read more
Rosita Arvigo – Part 1 – A Maya medicine story
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.
This first video tells her story.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Rosita Arvigo – Part 2 – Backyard gardening
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 addition to being a traditional healer, she’s also an experienced farmer and this second video contains her thoughts on gardening.
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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Rosita Arvigo – Part 3 – In the Kitchen
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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Rosita Arvigo – Part 4 – Forest Bathing
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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Rosita Arvigo – Part 5 – Abdominal massage
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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Heavily censored information on plant medicine
If the speaker’s YouTube channel is still up, you can find it here:
This excellent video is both a demonstration of all the good people who are making heroic efforts to educate the public and an example of the unhinged and demented censorship that Google-owned YouTube now routinely engages in.
The subject is the herbal medicines used successfully by the multi-thousand year medical traditions of India and China to … Read more
It’s time for Thyme
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
