Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Hello Vera!



In the Australian Bush like in many cultures around the world,indigenous knowledge says that if you get bitten by some poisonous critter or stung by a toxic plant the first aid ER you need is within 25 metres of where it happened.I could be wrong on the radius of remedy but the point being that within nature is both pain & the pain relief, the cure. Now in most concrete jungles you are not going to be able to put this to the test but here in the Yucatan, you can find relief to a lot of skin ailments like burns, especially from the sun, stings of various kinds right outside on the street where you live. Aleo Vera (Sebilera del Mayab its called here) has been used medicinally for thousands of years especially for skin problems. You can drink it too. I have treated over exposure to sun on my face with the gel from this leaf many times, picked straight from the street, outside my hotel. I just step onto the road walk 25 metres and look for this long spiky green leaf plant.... "Hello Vera"

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