Many
scholars on the theme hold that the ancestral knowledge of indigenous
people from the Americas on natural herbs were vast and wide, even
greater than those known today.
The elder have always though the newer generations that, in case
of illness, they can take care of themselves with traditional medicine,
using natural herbs found in the communities or in near by sectors.
The indigenous people at the central zone of Ecuador have always
been very acknowledged in the use of natural medicine.
The Janviccuna or "naturalistic doctor" is the person
who has gathered more knowledge and also practices natural medicine.
According to the illness, pain and patient he will use the natural
herbs in the form of wiksa nanaipac jambi yacuta ubiana (beverages),
pañuta rurrana or pañuta guatana (plasters) or th
widly known mancharishcata pichana (cleanouts)).
But the herbs have not only been used for medical treatments, many
other are used for aromatic purposes or for seasoning day to day
or exotic dishes.
Huertos Eden has gathered all this ancestral information and introduced
it to our organic agricultural process and natural herb production,
obtaining final products of the finest quality.
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