This is a traditional medicine in the native culture of Hispanola. Will the native healers who shared their knowledge receive fair recompense?
An equal share of the income (at least 50%) generated by sales of these bejucos goes directly to the native community. This is crucial, for at this very moment the government of the Dominican Republic is planning to sell this community’s land, evict them and completely destroy this last remnant of pre-Columbian culture. It is our hope that through sharing their traditional ways and these miraculous roots as medicines for the modern world, this remnant people can maintain and eventually flourish again. They have much to teach us of their ways to live happily, love abundantly and enjoy this precious human life.
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