News
24 March 2021
An online symposium will be held on April 8, 2021, to bring together all the contributors of the Mind of Plants to share their reflections and various approaches to plants. Our scientific director Matteo Politi will offer a contribution on the Ushpwasha Sanango master plant.
03 March 2021
Interview with Jacques Mabit by journalist Álvaro R. de la Rubia, January 2021. The Amazonian peoples (like all ancestral peoples) are quite pragmatic and what anthropologists describe as “magical-religious thinking” is in good part a projection of Western thought.
22 February 2021
Video presentation of the psycho-corporal workshop delivered by psychologist Guadalupe Arana as part of a drug use prevention project carried out between 2019 and 2020 by Takiwasi for the benefit of 500 adolescents from three high-schools of the city of Tarapoto.
19 February 2021
Indigenous women and medicinal plants
A report by Rebecca Lazarou, MSc in Medicinal Natural Products and Phytochemistry, about the Nuwas Forest, a space where a group of Awajún indigenous women grow medicinal plants and thus preserve their ancestral knowledge.
19 February 2021
Book on Traditional Bolivian Medicine
Quechua healer Carlos Prado Mendoza, from Cochabamba, Bolivia, offers on sale the electronic book in Spanish “1000 maneras de prevenir y curar enfermedades” (1000 ways to prevent and cure diseases), where he explains the use of medicinal plants from Bolivia to cure many diseases. This beautiful volume is presented as an encyclopedia of herbal medicine and more generally of alternative medicine.
The proceeds from the sale of this book will be delivered to Carlos Prado to help him face the difficult economic situation that he is going through because of the pandemic and to respond to his personal health needs.
