Why Use Rainforest Herbs?
Documented herbal usage of healing herbs by indigenous inhabitants goes back in some cases over 2,000 years. In many cases, several hundred years. There is a long, unbroken history of use that we can rely on to validate cause and effect.
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Western science and pharmaceutical companies have been taking an increasing amount of interest in this natural pharmacy. Certain herbs in particular have been incredibly well-researched and many traditional uses documented and explained.
There is not only anecdotal evidence, but a large body of scientific validation. The Rainforest is the last virgin unhoed, unsowed and unploughed growing area on earth. Untouched, rainforest plants have had millennia to learn to adapt and thrive in conditions most other plants would run away from! Teeming life in the steamy jungle means life and death battles for space, light and survival. It means learning how to throw off or come to terms with more bacteria and fungi, yeast and pests, microbes and invaders than anyplace else on earth.
Because of their astoundingly heroic ability to survive and thrive, rainforest plants have special healing characteristics. Many rainforest plants have developed exceptional cell protective qualities, which is not surprising considering the overwhelming task of protecting their cells against everything from tiny microbial attacks to armies of ants.
Handled properly plants will pass along these same cell protective qualities to us. That's why almost all our ‘miracle' medicines and many cancer drugs are synthesized from rainforest plants.