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Sangre de Grado: Dragon's Blood and the Healing...

The Amazon rainforest produces some of the most remarkable natural saps, oils, and resins on Earth. Among the most famous is Sangre de Grado — Dragon's Blood — a deep...

The Art of Alpaca Textiles: Andean Weaving Trad...

High in the Andes mountains, where temperatures drop well below freezing and the air is thin, alpacas have provided warmth and livelihood to Andean peoples for over 6,000 years. Today,...

Crystals and Stones of South America: A Collect...

South America is one of the world's richest regions for mineral diversity. From the vast amethyst geodes of southern Brazil to the high-altitude quartz deposits of the Andes, the continent...

A Beginner's Guide to Ethnobotanicals: Plants, ...

Ethnobotany — the study of how people use plants — sits at the intersection of botany, anthropology, ecology, and medicine. It encompasses the thousands of plant-human relationships that have developed...

Kambo: The Giant Monkey Frog Medicine of the Am...

Kambo is the waxy secretion of the Giant Monkey Frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor), a large tree frog found throughout the upper Amazon basin. For generations, indigenous peoples — particularly the Matses...

Understanding Amazonian Decoction Pastes: Tradi...

Among the most potent and traditional forms of Amazonian plant medicine are decoction pastes — thick, concentrated aqueous extracts that preserve the full spectrum of a plant's active compounds. These...