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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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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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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The Black Walnut with Dina Falconi
Where I live, black walnuts are everywhere and now is the time they’re dropping their fruit – with a heavy thud!
What are they fruits and nuts good for?
A lot!
Another view of this very useful plant
– Ken McCarthy
PlantWisdom.org
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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
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
