Don Lucio is a practitioner of plant medicine, from the Tikuna tribe. He takes us in his forest and shows us some of the medicinal plants that he uses to cure a wide range of ailments. This is an oral tradition that gets passed down within a family for generations.
For us at Light for the Amazon is important to establish positive relationships with people that have this knowledge, so we can help pass it down to the young generation ensuring that it will not disappear.
Rolando Nina is a practitioner of plant medicine, from the Yaguas tribe. He has been working with medicinal plants for more than 30 years. He uses the medicinal and energetic properties of the plants to cure a wide range of ailments. In this video he is preparing a bath of medicinal plants, which is used to heal the body, diagnose illness and clear away negative energy (what we would define stress).