Product Description Authors: Ezra Bejar, Rainer Bussman, Cruz Roa & Douglas Sharon List Price: $34.95 ISBN: 0-9715204-0-2. Published by: Latino Herbal Press Publication Date: 2002 Pages: 352 Binding(s): Paperback Editorial Reviews James A. Duke, Ph.D., author of The Green Pharmacy, 2001 "...The wisdom of empirical knowledge handed down for generations..." Peter T. Furst, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology "...An encyclopedic study to ensure the survival and wider dissemination of herbal knowledge..." >>More Reviews

Can we live a vibrant, productive, and fully functional life long into our 70s, 80s, and even beyond? People from many cultures and different ways of life have searched for the secrets of youth.

Are There Secrets of Youth in Southern Ecuador?

Vilcabamba, (in the Quechua language “holly valley”) located in Southern Ecuador, is known to gerontologists as one of three places in the world with the largest population of elderly people. This valley is known as an "island of immunity and a pool of longevity." The favorable climate, water quality, proper nutrition and use of herbs allow inhabitants to survive to a high age in a remarkable state of fitness.

For the first time the secrets of herbal wisdom of Vilcabamba are available to the public. Herbs of Southern Ecuador provides exciting information about an ethnobotanical expedition to Ecuador led by Ezra Bejar. The book includes the field methodology, and complete ethnobotanical information on more than 140 herbs. Vernacular and scientific names, families and synonyms, illustrations, botanical descriptions, origins, geographic coordinates, as well as ecology, traditional classification, uses, preparation, parts used, and administration are available. The information is in Spanish and English, for easy cross-reference, containing excellent indices by scientific and vernacular names and a comprehensive bibliography.


The authors of the book are: Dr. Ezra Béjar a pharmacologist, world's expert on botanical medicine who has directed numerous ethnobotanical expeditions in Latin America; Mr. Cruz Roa Jaramillo, a farmer and herbalist from the community of San Pedro de Vilcabamba, Ecuador; Dr. Rainer W. Bussmann, a vegetation ecologist who specializes in Latin America and African plants and a former Director of the Lyon Arboretum at the University of Hawaii and Dr. Douglas Sharon, former director of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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