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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What happens when the countryside is destroyed

The price of industrial agriculture

Poet/farmer Wendell Berry

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

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

The science behind the Odyssey

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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Plant Wisdom’s greatest hits

This might be the last time you hear from me for a while.

There is a ton of life- changing information on the Plant Wisdom site.

I have put some of our “greatest hits” together on one page.

I hope you will take advantage of it and share it widely with people who need it now.

One thing we can always count on are the plants. We just have to … Read more

A visit with Elder Bertha Skye

McMaster University is located in Hamilton, Ontario, an industrialized city on the shores of Lake Ontario, south of Toronto.

This is a description of the program there that Elder Bertha Skye is part of.

The Indigenous Students Health Sciences (ISHS) office is solely dedicated to providing services and supports for the academic success and wellbeing of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis students in the Faculty of Health Sciences at … Read more