![]() ![]() ![]() However, there are other traditional healers around, although you would have to search them out through word of mouth and a bit of luck. If you fantasize about following in Arvigo’s footsteps, you’re too late to know Don Elijio Panti, who passed away in 1996 at the age of 103. Through a contract Balick had with the National Cancer Institute to collect tropical plants for study regarding their effects on cancer, more than 3,000 plants from all over Belize were sent to the United States for further study. Michael Balick, Director of the Institute of Economic Botany of the New York Botanical Garden, worked with Arvigo to create the Belize Ethnobotany Project. In addition to co-authoring Arvigo’s books on herbal healing, Dr. Lastly, you can try Casa Mascia pharmacy. Additionally, a number of her formulas are also available for sale via Rosita Arvigo’s website. If you’d like to try some of the remedies, the prescriptive books contain information about suppliers of the herbs they mention. “Rainforest Home Remedies” includes herbs from Belize and beyond, as well as other advice on natural treatments of common ailments based on Mayan knowledge and philosophy. “Rainforest Remedies” catalogues Belizean plants and their uses by the Mayans and others. “Sastun” reads like a novel, a story of Arvigo’s herbal and shamanic apprenticeship with Don Elijio, while the other two are more useful as reference books. She also penned two more books specifically about the Mayan use of herbs: “Rainforest Home Remedies: The Maya Way to Heal your Body and Replenish your Soul” and “Rainforest Remedies, 100 Healing Herbs of Belize.” All three are available on Amazon. Rosita Arvigo, an American-trained doctor of Naprapathy, studied with Don Panti, and in the 1994 book “Sastun” she wrote about her adventures. Perhaps the most renowned traditional healer of modern times in Belize was Don Elijio Panti, a shaman and true traditional medicine man. Don Elijio Panti & Rosita Arvigo Herbal Healing More to the point, Jungle Oil really does do what it claims. Belize is refreshingly unfettered by American FDA labeling regulations. “Repels insects, stops that crazy itch, reduces swelling, heals bug bites” proclaims its label. One of my family’s favorites, available at the San Ignacio market most Saturdays as well as at health food stores in Spanish Lookout and elsewhere, is Jungle Oil by BodyBelize Apothecary. The tradition of herbal healing that started before the Mayan calendar is still alive and well in Belize.īelizeans’ faith in herbal healing remains unabated, and herbal remedies are available everywhere from the local farmers’ market to the gift shop at Francis Ford Coppola’s posh resort Turtle Inn in Placencia. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |