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Preserving Mayan Wisdom Through Medicinal Plants

Explore traditional Mayan knowledge about healing plants and their sacred uses in medicine and ceremony.

Featured Medicinal Plants

Milk thistle

Milk thistle

Silybum marianum (L.) Gaertner.

Physic nut, Barbados nut

Physic nut, Barbados nut

Jatropha curcas L..

Luffa

Luffa

Luffa sepium (G. Mey.) C. Jeffrey.

Mexican calabash

Mexican calabash

Crescentia alata Kunth

Cathedral bells

Cathedral bells

Kalanchoe pinnata.

fenugreek

fenugreek

Trigonella foenum-graecum L.

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