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  Health & Medicinal
Herbs of the Andes  part 1

   Health & Medicinal Herbs of the Andes  part 1
José Maria Perugachi is not a Yachac.  He is an Andean Mountain Man.  Like most rural Indigenous people, he knows much of the medicinal plants that grow locally and in many cases trusts the healing powers of these remedies more than modern medicine.