GREEN MEDICINE OF THE INKAS

A kidney transplant peruvian patient at a Hospital in London had developed an infection in the operation incision that would not clear up. Then the patient remembered a remedy he had seen local shamans in his homeland. He asked to a young doctor to bring a papaya. He laid strips of papaya fruit across the infected wound. The wound healed.
This unorthodox medical success was met with ridicule. But although treatment by "green medicine" that means the use of plant remedies, is often derided by the medical profession in Europe and North America, it is commonplace in many other parts of the world, especially in PERU.
Influenced by European and American ideas, much of the cities along the coast of Peru are practicing Western medicine. Still the mountain region and the amazon region practice its traditional medicine.
If a popular folk remedy seems to work, they test it to find its active ingredient and then use this ingredient on a large scale.
One major advantage of herbal remedies is that they are inexpensive. Ninety per cent of the population in the mountain region and the amazonian region rely on their own traditional healers.
Since ancient time, the healers train themselves with the language of NATURE. Flowers, herbs, plants and trees have their own way of communication. Healers are the only ones that notice the time of the day just by observing the behavior of specific flowers. Some plants open and shut their flowers at different times of the day. This is a phenomenon that controls the flowering according to the daylight.
The same application goes to every human being. Like the flowers, everyone of us behave different according to the amount of sunlight that we receive during daytime. It is the healer's observation that determines which type of natural medicine he needs to apply in order to correct the imbalance suffered by the patient's body. Not everybody can consider himself or herself a healer when do not descend from a line of healers that come with the knowledge passed to them from generations to generations.
The ever-spiraling costs of synthetic drugs will force Western medicine to take another look at the properties of the plant remedies use by the healers and in a not distant future, PAPAYA may be a standard treatment for infected wounds.