Rosita Arvigo
Autor(a) de Sastun: One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer and Their Efforts to Save the Vani
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Obras de Rosita Arvigo
Sastun: One Woman's Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer and Their Efforts to Save the Vani (1994) 140 cópias
Medicinal Plants used in northern Guanajuato / Plantas Medicinales usadas en el norte de Guanajuato (English/Spanish… (2011) 2 cópias
Plantas utiles del mundo maya un libro para pintar= Useful plants of the mundo maya : a colouring book 1 exemplar(es)
Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer 1 exemplar(es)
Rainforest Remedies: 100 Healing Herbs of Belize: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize (1992) 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1941-05-15
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Locais de residência
- San Ignacio, Belize
San Francisco, California, USA
the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains of Mexico
Tlactotepec, Guerrero, Mexico
Naples, Florida, USA - Educação
- The Chicago National College of Naprapathy
- Ocupação
- Doctor of Naprapathy
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Membros
- 264
- Popularidade
- #87,286
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 16
- Idiomas
- 2
When Arvigo met Panti, the legendary healer was eighty-seven years old. Slight and sinewy, with failing eyesight and rheumatism, he still ventured into the forest to gather plants and ministered to patients from near and far each day. Arvigo was determined to become Panti's apprentice so that she could learn more about the native plants of Belize. What she discovered instead was her life's work-the quest to sustain and study rainforest plants and bridge the gap between Panti's traditional wisdom and modern healing practices.
Making regular, laborious treks to Panti's ramshackle home clinic, Arvigo slowly gains the confidence and respect of the cantankerous, compassionate, and deeply spiritual healer and of the community he serves. We follow the unlikely pair into the jungle to collect plants, listen as Panti teaches Arvigo about the physical and spiritual tools of the healer, and meet unforgetable characters-including the mysterious Carib named Jeronimo who taughtPanti the art of healing, a little irl suffering from an intestinal disorder unfathomable to teh many doctors her frantic parents have consulted,a woman 'posssessed' and near death because of exposure to the black arts that are the flipside of Pant's white art of healing, and athe visitin film crew of a Hollywood movie with anintergal part to play in Arvigo's initiation as a healer.
Ultimately, Arvigo's efforts to preserve and explore Panti's healing wisdom attracted the attention of the prestigious New york Botanical Garden and the National Cancer Institute. Today, in their remarkable joint effort, rainforest plants are researched as potential treatments for HIV and cancer.
Rosita Arvigo was born in Chicago and trained in the United States as a doctor of naprapathy. In addition to her natural healing practice in Belize, Arvigo teaches and lectues in Central and North America. Her efforts to educate the world about rainforest plants and preserve their healing tradition incude adminsitration of Belize's six-thousand-acre Terra Novea, the first extractive medicinal plant reserve in the hemisphere, and the founding of Ix Chel tropical Research Fokundation; Rainforest Remedies, a cooperative company that makes herbal drops from rainforest plants about to be destroed; and Panti Mayan Medicine Trail, a poopular and educatonal tribute to Don Elijio.
Nadine Epstein is a writer and artist whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, and Ms.
The compelling, true drama of American herbologist Tosita Arvigo's quest to preserve the knowledge of Don Elijio Panti, one of the last surviving, and most respected, traditional healers in the rainforest of Belize.
'Sastun is a story of an extraordinary relationship between two people from two different cultures who find a common language in their love of traditional healing and plants of the rainforest.'-from the Foreword by Michael Balick, curator, New York Botanical Garden
'Rosita (Arvigo) is Mother Earth personified. Don Elijio gave my daughter a Mayan blessing, and cured a strange jungle rash on my leg...It was quite an experience for us, these pale Western girls in our Nikes, having the wisdom of generations bestowed upon us.'-Tracey Ullman, star of 'The Tracey Ullman Show'
'(Arvigo) captures the smells, the color, the very feel of the jungle even as she gives us an honest portrait of one woman's arduous and successful quest for knowledge.'-Gloria Levitas, Professor of Anthropology at Queens College, The City Universiy of New York, and co-editor of We Wait Until Darkness
'The rainforests of the world are an enormous repository of valuable medical knowledge-knowledge that is often overlooked by Western medicine. This book is an important attempt at trying to preserve some of that knowledge.'-Howard Rheingold, editior, Whole Earth Review
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Michael Balick
Introduction
Sastun
Epilogue
Glossary of Mayan Words
A basic catalogue of medicinal rainforest plants… (mais)