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by: T.H Pardo de Tavera
T.H Pardo de Tavera’s Plantas medicinales de Filipinas is a practical manual on “the use that the Filipinos make of their plants in the treatment of the disease”. Together with his other work Arte de cuidar enfermos, it is about our relationship to our bodies-how we view illnesses and their remedies. It also about our relationship to the relationship to the physical world that we inhabit.
While the book helps us to heal our bodies, it leads us to view the world around us to heal our bodies, it leads us to view the world around us in a fresh way, It reminds us of a truth which we often, namely, that we live on a planet that is literally life-giving, where many of the plants within our reach hold the power to restore us to health and at a price affordable to most, and in some cases, at no cost at all. The book talks about the many and diverse plants which are a treatment to cough, wounds, diarrhea, dysentery-the ubiquitous makahiya, the simple bayabas, the foul-smelling kalumpang. Who among us know the efficacy of their healing properties?
Having been conferred the medical degree at the Sorbonne in Paris, Pardo de Tavera would have had familiarity with and respect for Western Medicine. Nonetheless, he tenaciously held the view that ordinary people possess real insight into how they can cure their bodily afflictions with plants available to them in their surroundings.
Copyright 2000
ISBN 2000000133480
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