Hello. My name is Eliseo Cheo Torres, I'm an administrator and professor at the University of New Mexico and I teach a class on traditional medicine of Mexico in the southwest and today we have one of the best herbalists that I have ever met. In fact I've taken a class with Doris Ortiz. Doris is not only an herbalist but she's also a holistic teacher of medicine and a practitioner and she can identify just about any plant or some of times weeds that we think are worthless are very medicinal and she's going to explain the uses of medicinal herbs for our ailments. She's taught a class here at the University of New Mexico so we are happy to have you and translating and interpreting today is Tonita Gonzales, Tonita is from the North Valley of Albuquerque and she's also a healer and her teacher is also Doris, so we're so pleased that Doris is your. We are here today with an exposition of plants that we took today from the medicinal plant garden here at the University of New Mexico. We found plants for all the different systems in the body including a plant that we sometimes use in Mexico for cancer. It's Vinca minor. That's a scientific name which is periwinkle. The nervous system, our digestive system which today we are going to be focused on the digestive system. The nervous system has a lot to do and is related to the digestive system and even to other systems as well. The stress is the greatest cause of most illnesses. If we talk a little bit about gastritis, where the symptoms are, which is burning, nausea and stomach pain. We have plants just like basal, poleo which is a natural mint, mugwort, that which is a blood protector and we have other plants that we don't have present today, which is Julliana, which is, Mexican Heather. There's a very good remedy that will help with gastritis and severe gastritis and chronic. It's to drink the tea of Spearmint that will be cold but a minimum of three cups a day, this would help as well to lower the irritation of hernias. As you can see, the plants here are very common, I think they could help. In our garden, often we have plants that are lilies and they're really good at relaxing our nervous system. We have plants such as the dandethelion which is a dandelion that eliminates parts and stimulates your liver. We also have mugwort, which is a blood protector which would help a lot with problems such as within the liver, we also have rosemary which is also a blood protector. These also help to eliminate fats from the liver, which is another cause, which is the silent killer, which is cholesterol. We also have the illness that has killed more people than World Wars, and that's diabetes, and when we talk about the emotional level of diabetes, it's produced because of a lack of love. We have a plant like this one which is so simple, which is a type of Mexican Marigold that if you drink it at 11 o'clock at night with the line that has been cut with a cross, it would help control the glucose levels in the body. We also talk about cactus leafs, if you blend it together with the green tomato with the pill, and you do it before you eat, that would also help to lower the glucose levels within your body and another one that's very good excellent remedy is a blended drink Well, we have seven green beans that are liquefied within the blender. This will help to lower the blood sugar within the body. Another one that you have here, which is the walnut tree, the ash tree, and the Cascara Sagrada, which is beriberi, it helps us a lot is that a henkel, which is Wormwood. So, we need to prevent, and we can do all of these in a tea, that it has the white cottonwood, fresno which is ash, and noval which is the walnut tree. With these three, it would help to maintain the glucose levels within the body, but they also help to prevent the spikes in sugar. When I talk about the scientific name of Elemo, which is cottonwood, it helps as a regulator of the sugar levels. The walnut tree, which is the science name, she's giving you the scientific name, it's a puritive to cleanse the blood. And Fresno which is Ash, which is the scientific name, it also helps to purify and to lower the sugar levels within the body and you'll notice that because it's very bitter. As you can see, we could work before the illness starts, but it's always very important to work the nervous system as well and the principal cause of the illnesses, which is love. We have some other plans here which is the Wild Apple, which helps us to eliminate fats and it stimulates the kidneys. If our kidney is working in a good level, we would not have illnesses all the time, and where energy is, our ancestral energy, and the energy of our parents and that's what drives the energy so that we can be active or fall. What I'll let you know that all of these plants here we're plants that we took from the university medicinal gardens. Other illness that is very common is constipation. This illness is normally caused from heat and the cause is the lack of fibers within your foods. When we talk about on an emotional level of that illness or that cause, there are people that are inflexible and they always want to have strength. They're inflexible with themselves. What we want to do is allow them to release. They're so much in control that they don't even release their feces. We have plant like Hojasen which is Senna. This is a variety of Hojasen. This is Mexican wildflower. We have Cascara Sagrada which is Beriberi that moves our intestines, but we also have another which is preventative, which is a blended drink. You could do cucumber before you eat. All of these plants, we can make them into a tincture form, or we can make them into an extract to take out the medicinal properties. We do it with 80% alcohol, we do it 20% water, 80% alcohol, and 200 grams of plants. You could put between 200 to 300 grams of plant. This is another microdoses and this is the way how we take the plants and the microdoses after. It's a dilution of the mother tincture. You put 10 drops of the mother tincture, and more vehicle which is 80% water, 20% alcohol. It could also be simple water. The dosage could be every two hours up to every 12 hours, depending of the infection. We also make ointments that we also make with these types of plants. We make elixirs and tonics as well using several of these plants, they could be used for your lungs as well. We could also cook the plants or top them, and put them into white or red wine for two weeks, and after drink them before we eat or before we sleep. Thank you very, very much. I hope that these will be useful for you. All these treasures of things that are green. These are plants we step on every day without realizing that they're wonderful curative plans for our body. You have just listened to one of the best herbalists that I have ever met. She teaches herbalism. She knows all the scientific names and all the usage for medicinal purposes. So, Tonita, thank you for your translation. Thank you. Thank you.