Part of a KQED News series exploring the connection between food and spirituality in the Bay Area. This story steps inside San Francisco botanicas to meet healers who use local and imported herbs to helping clients make a mind-body connection. KQED’s Shuka Kalantari reports the centuries old traditions of healing is rooted in using medicinal plants that can be gathered and grown.

Food and Spirituality in San Francisco's Botanicas

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In some parts of the world, traditional herbal remedies are the norm.  When we  think of natural remedies we tend to think of older generations living in remote areas, in far away  countries,  with little access to modern healthcare.  We rarely think about the ancient medicinal plants that might exist in our very own cities. On today's episode we look at plant and herb medicines through the lens of Michele Elizabeth. Lee the author of Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing.

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A History of Traditional Root Healing (Encore)

Interview of Judy Bluehorse-Skelton by Christopher Milton on August 10th, 2011.

Educator and herbalist, Judy Bluehorse Skelton has worked with Multnomah and Washington County Indian Education programs, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz, OMSI, and shares her knowledge of medicinal plants. She is of Nez Perce, Cherokee, and Chickasaw descent, and a member of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. She is the author of six collections of essays for teachers including Native America: A Sustainable Culture (1999), and Lewis & Clark Through Native American Eyes (2003). She is on the Portland State University faculty. In 2006 she was honored with the Oregon Indian Education Association's award for Outstanding Indian Educator. She has served on the boards of the Urban Greenspaces Institute, The Intertwine Alliance, and the Native Advisory Committees to Portland Parks and Recreation and Portland Metro Land Use. 

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Sustainability History Project: Interview with Judy Bluehorse-Skelton, Portland State U., 2011

After the family doctor prescribed nothing for one-year-old Norma's sty on her eye, her granny ordered the family out to a glen to gather garlic.
Back home, a leaf was ground up into a paste and applied to the eye, and in the morning there was not a trace of the sty at all...

This is an extract from the oral history interview with Norma  recorded by Katie Newton on 28 September 2020. The full interview is available online here: https://culturevannin.im/watchlisten/oralhistory/norma-cowell-754327/

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Removing a sty with garlic

In our May episode of Kamalaya ‘Wellness for Life’ podcast, we talk about medicinal plants and what they are good for. Karina Stewart, Chief Wellness Officer and Founder of Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary on Koh Samui, Thailand talks to Professor Gerard Bodeker, a public health researcher and academic specialising in lifespan wellness and integrative healthcare. Gerry has been engaged in traditional medicinal plant research for more than three decades, he is a Fellow of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) and has served as Editor in Chief of the World Health Organization Global Atlas on Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 

Together with Karina, they discuss herbal medicine and its benefits, covering topics such as: 

    Complementary medicine  
    When to seek the use of herbal medicine 
    Types of medicinal plants 
    What are medicinal plants good for?  

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Wellness for Life podcast “Medicinal Plants and Alternative Medicine” with professor Gerard Bodeker

University of the Virgin Islands Cooperative Extension Service Natural Resources Extension Agent Toni Thomas shares about what lead to the making of her book, Traditional Medicinal Plants of St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John.

Part of a Series of Multi-Media within the #VIChlorophyllConvo
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We visit one of the lesser-known wine-making regions – Wales – to get one perspective on biodynamic farming. Then we’re off to the hills of Catalonia to hear from a small-scale chicken farmer. And, finally, we take a dose of medicine just outside Seattle – in the form of herbs, human connections, and the land itself.

29: Biodynamic vines, Catalonian chickens & medicinal plants

A celebration of the life of medicinal plant database creator Dr. James Duke.   Interview portion originally aired in October 2013.

A celebration of the life of medicinal plant database creator Dr. James Duke

Exctract of a 20' interactive live performance presented at TAPS Vol. 1, Italy 2018.

Herbalism_ performance extract at Taps vol. 1

As long as humans have been around, we’ve relied on plants for our survival: as food, fuel, shelter, medicine — and to produce the oxygen we breathe. Ethnobotanists are scientists who study and catalog these complex interactions between people and plants. Yet ethnobotany has a complicated history of its own, with roots in European colonial expeditions and in the exploitation of Indigenous communities.

Now, with the biodiversity crisis imperiling plants, ethnobotanists have become unexpected advocates for Indigenous knowledge rights in the quest to conserve useful plants around the world and the cultures that rely on them. Modern ethnobotanists are striving to work in partnership with their study communities to preserve much more than just plants: Languages, livelihoods and a wealth of knowledge are at stake. 

Photo: Blueberry plants grow wild in Jonathan Ferrier’s homelands and study sites, and have many important medicinal uses. [Credit: Kjerstin_Michaela | Public Domain Mark 1.0]

Original music by Michael Radack
Other music and sound effects by Jahzzar, Richard Laiepce, mikevpme, and Blear Moon

The evolution of ethnobotany

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Riccardo Casentini is a multidisciplinary artist from Italy inspired by nature elements. During the last years he is working on a conceptual artwork called Herbalism /ˈhəːbəlɪz(ə)m/, an alchemical sound project.. a ritual.. music from medicinal plants.
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