Native plant walk with Dr. Rosita Arvigo DN

Name: Native plant walk with Dr. Rosita Arvigo DN
Start: 2024-07-27T11:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-07-27T14:30:00-05:00
Location: 997 W. Southside Drive, Decatur, IL, United States, Illinois 62521

Schedule

Sat Jul 27 2024 at 11:30 am to 02:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

997 W. Southside Drive, Decatur, IL, United States, Illinois 62521 | Decatur, IL

🌿 🍄🌻 Join us for an enriching and educational Native Plant Walk led by a distinguished Naprapathic physician, herbalist, international lecturer, and author, Dr. Rosita Arvigo DN, . This unique experience will guide participants through the local flora, highlighting the medicinal properties and traditional uses of native plants. Our expert instructor will share her extensive knowledge of herbal medicine and natural health, providing insights into how these plants can support wellness and healing. Whether you're a budding herbalist, a health enthusiast, or simply curious about the natural world, this walk offers a rare opportunity to learn from a seasoned professional in the field of natural medicine. Come prepared to explore, learn, and connect with nature in a whole new way.
Dr. Rosita Arvigo DN, a native of Chicago, but she has also lived in remote areas of Mexico and Belize for over forty years where she studied with many traditional healers the most notable of whom were Don Elijio Panti, the renowned Maya shaman of Belize and midwife/ herbalist Hortence Robinson, both recipients of the coveted National Living Treasure Award. She and her husband, Dr. Greg Shropshire founded Ix Chel Tropical Research Centre in Belize, an organization dedicated to the preservation, education and study of medicinal plants of the rainforest. They founded the Belize Association of Traditional Healers, Bush Medicine Camp for Children, The Rainforest Medicine Trail and Rainforest Remedies, a herbal concentrate company. In 1987. With Dr. Michael Balick of The New York Botanical Garden, they founded the Belize Ethnobotany project to record and archive uses of medicinal plants in Belize.
To preview or purchase her book, The Urban Herbalist, please go to
https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07H1TSWHC&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_ZZ727CRRWBDHJ62CNNK0