Book : Sastun My Apprenticeship With A Maya Healer - Rosita.

-Titulo Original : Sastun My Apprenticeship With A Maya Healer

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The compelling drama of American herbologist Rosita Arvigos quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving and most respected traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize. Review Arvigo presents an engaging account of her five-year association with Panti and his patients. -- Publishers Weekly The rainforests of the world are an enormous repository of valuable medical knowledgeknowledge that is often overlooked by Western medicine. This book is an important attempt at trying to preserve some of that knowledge -- Howard Rheingold, Whole Earth Review While apprenticing with the respected shaman . . . [Arvigo] unearthed her lifes work: the quest to study and sustain rainforest plants and to bridge the gap between traditional healers wisdom and modern medical techniques. -- Chicago Tribune About the Author Rosita Arvigo was born in Chicago and trained in the United States as a doctor of naprapathy. In addition to her natural healing practice in Belize, Arvigo is the founder of Belizes six-thousand-acre Terra Nova Medicinal Plant Reserve, the founder of Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation, the cofounder of Rainforest Remedies, and the creator of the Panti Mayan Medicine Trail, a popular and educational tribute to Don Elijio From The Washington Post [Arvigo makes] clear that as the West slashes and burns its way through rainforests and tribal lands . . . . we destroy not only others, but ultimately ourselves.