Show 1016: Rosita Arvigo Recommends Remedies from the Rainforest
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The tropical rainforest of Belize is full of medicinal plants. The knowledge of these plants and their uses has been considered secret, closely guarded by the traditional Mayan practitioners of shamanism.
Rosita Arvigo and Remedies from the Rainforest:
But several decades ago, an inquisitive, well-prepared and persistent American woman showed up and became a shaman’s apprentice. Ultimately, the shaman realized that she could teach others, including young Mayans, about remedies from the rainforest so that his knowledge would not be lost forever. Rosita Arvigo tells her story and shares her wisdom as she talks with Joe and Terry.
This Week’s Guest:
Rosita Arvigo is a doctor of naprapathy as well as an ethnobotanist and teacher. She has written nine books on the traditional healing of Central America, with the blessing of her mentor, Don Eligio of San Ignacio, Belize. They include Rainforest Remedies: 100 Healing Herbs of Belize; Rainforest Home Remedies: The Maya Way to Heal Your Body and Replenish Your Soul; Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer; and Medicinal Plants Used in Northern Guanajuato, among others.
Her enthusiasm has helped keep Don Eligio’s knowledge of remedies from the rainforest alive. Dr. Arvigo has been instrumental in cataloging and preserving thousands of healing plants and trees of Belize through the Belize Ethnobotany Project. She founded the Ix Chel Tropical Research Center in Belize along with the Arvigo Institute.
To learn more about the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® for your reproductive and digestive wellness, classes offered by the Arvigo Institute, and to find an Arvigo® Therapy practitioner near you: www.arvigotherapy.com
Listen to the Podcast:
The podcast of this program will be available the Monday after the broadcast date. The show can be streamed online from this site and podcasts can be downloaded for free for four weeks after the date of broadcast. After that time has passed, digital downloads are available for $2.99. CDs may be purchased at any time after broadcast for $9.99.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I'm Joe Graydon. I'm Terry Graydon. The People's Pharmacy podcast is brought you in part by Squatty Potty, |
| 0:06.8 | the original toilet step stool that creates healthy toilet posture. Learn how squatting relaxes the colon |
| 0:12.6 | and allows for easy, healthy elimination at squattypotty.com. And by Comfy Comfy Comfy, |
| 0:19.6 | makers of all-natural buckwheat hull pillows comfy comfy comfy pillows provides superior support by conforming to your head and neck for healthy restful sleep on the web at comfy comfy.com |
| 0:33.5 | for 10% off your first order enter enter the code Peoples at checkout. |
| 0:40.8 | Tropical rainforests around the world are disappearing. |
| 0:44.9 | What will we lose when they're gone? |
| 0:48.0 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 1:00.0 | Thank you. Terry and Joe Graydon. Indigenous people have a wealth of knowledge about how to use rainforest plants for healing, but that important resource is disappearing as younger people in these areas grow up more interested in jobs and computers |
| 1:12.0 | than wandering around in the rainforest collecting plants. |
| 1:15.8 | Older people often find themselves unable to pass their encyclopedic knowledge on before they die. |
| 1:21.7 | Today we hear from an American woman who has spent years learning for Mayan healers how they use the native plants of Belize. |
| 1:29.3 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, Rosita Arvigo shares her remarkable story. |
| 1:35.2 | First, the News. |
| 1:39.6 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, blocking male hormones can help fight prostate cancer, |
| 1:46.0 | but may put men at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease. Half a million men with prostate cancer |
| 1:51.7 | are treated every year with drugs that block testosterone in similar hormones. Some men complain that |
| 1:57.4 | this approach, called androgen deprivation therapy or ADT, |
| 2:01.7 | saps their concentration, undermines their memory, and makes it more difficult to multitask. |
| 2:06.5 | Now a new study confirms an association between testosterone suppression |
| 2:11.8 | and the subsequent risk of Alzheimer's disease. |
| 2:15.8 | The scientists reviewed the records of 16,888 men who had prostate |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joe and Terry Graedon, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Joe and Terry Graedon and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.