Rainforest Home Remedies The Maya Way To Heal Your Body And Replenish Yo ur Soul

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An unparalleled resource for head-to-toe healing, this practical guide reveals health secrets from Maya culture. Rosita Arvigo, Director of Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation in Belize, outlines safe and effective natural remedies for everyday physical ailments - such as acne, flu and high blood pressure - as well as for "spiritual illnesses" - life grief, anxiety, and heartbreak. Rosemary, onion, oregano and cabbage leaves are just a few of the easy-to-find ingredients you can use to help heal bladder infections, find relief from carpal tunnel syndrome, or remedy the common cold. More than just an invaluable guide, this book also presents Maya philosophy and the ancient art of Maya healing massage while providing comprehensive guidelines for planting and harvesting your own healing garden.

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Our disconnection from nature is a serious cause of illness. Rosita Arvigo and Nadine Epstein help us to remember our connection with plants that can heal us as the authors bring us back home to a sacred way of life. -- Sandra Ingerman, author of Soul Retrieval and Medicine for the Earth

A stimulating, information-filled, and well-organized account of the main features of contemporary Maya folk medicine. -- Michael Harner, PhD., author of The Way of the Shaman

"A practical guide to healthy living and traditional herbal wisdom, blended artfully with an insightful view of common modern ailments. Full of stories; a refreshing view of wellness and sane living that is so needed today." -- Christopher Hobbs, 4th generation herbalist, licensed acupuncturist and author of 20 books on health and herbs, including Herbal Remedies for Dummies

Rosita, thank you for bringing these precious thoughts, so comprehensively done, to the healing world. Its banquet will feed our new hospital. If we are to survive as a species, it will be because ideas like these become important again. -- Patch Adams, MD

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Rosita Arvigo, a traditional healer, teacher, ethnobotanist and doctor of naprapathy is the director of Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation and the founder and codirector of Terra Nova, the world's first and only biomedicinal rainforest reserve.