Wellbeing & Spirituality

The impressive accumulation of indigenous knowledge about the properties of the plant world cannot be explained simply as a product of mysticism or Inca magic.

The discovery of pharmacological actions in many species of Peruvian flora was, surely, the result of prolonged periods of observation and experimentation that, although disguised in mystical clothing, are recorded among the legends that illustrate the Peruvian past.

Some of the discoveries of the ancient Peruvian herbalists are contributions that, until now, modern medicine considers of such great importance in its transculturation process, they dedicated their lives to the study of plants and their medicinal properties.

Indigenous botanists incorporated food plants and nutritious products from the land were incorporated into the human diet.

Following this logical line, the paleo pathology, the ceramics, adding what we now see of the indigenous medicine of our times, we can have a summarized vision of the pathology panorama that challenged the ingenuity of the old pre-Columbian doctors.