I’ve just found this on coursera and since I have some time on my hands decided to start it, even though I don’t live in the area that is covered and so I don’t have access to all the plants introduced there. I do however have a great interest in indigenous traditional methods of healing and this sounds really interesting. They also have three additional modules about curanderismo that are not referring to plants. It’s offered by the University of New Mexico and you can take it for free.
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Couple people in my family have become diligent about taking vitamin supplements daily for eye health. They’ve been taking “Vision Defender” by “Intelligent Formula”, which apparently just contains 3 ingredients:
As I am terminally busy/outside/working on an unfinished list of herbs, I will share a link to one of my favourite regional studies, with a warm “Thank you!!” to the authors who made this publicly available and kindly translated it into English for a larger public to benefit from it. May the traditional knowledge not get lost!
In a solarpunk future we cannot always rely on synthetic remedies being available, and in our dystopian present we have to assume that pharma doesn’t always have our best interest in mind.
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