REPAM: Seminar on indigenous traditional medicine

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In the fight against COVID-19 in the Amazon, the Panamanian Ecclesiastical Network is holding a Webinar Seminar on December 10 on experiences of how indigenous peoples have found a way to resist the pandemic by using medicinal plants to combat the virus, prevent its spread and save lives

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The axis of Socio-environmental Justice and Good Living of the Panamanian Ecclesiastical Network (REPAM), holds a Webinar on December 10 on the experiences of how indigenous peoples have found a way to resist the COVID-19 pandemic using medicinal plants to fight the virus, prevent its spread and save lives.

More than thirty-six thousand people died

The Amazon has been one of the territories most affected by COVID-19 due, not only to the precarious health infrastructure by the successive descendants of the Governments, but also to the contagions that largely came mainly from abroad. According to REPAM reports from the 7th, 1,540,226 confirmed cases and 36,839 failed people will be counted. The document shows:

“But our brothers and sisters from the indigenous peoples of Panama managed to rescue traditional indigenous medicine through their ancestral knowledge of plants, their healing and preventive properties, and their uses.”

Experiences of using traditional medicine

With this seminar Webinar wish that brothers and sisters who have had experience of using traditional indigenous medicine in the fight against COVID-19, share their experiences on how they have worked and will be able to socialize their experiences in different countries of the world. ‘Amazons.

“It’s about listening to the voices of those directly involved, so that they share their research, their systematization and their experiences. We are also looking for you to share some visual images of your experiences and to be aware of your answers. ”

In this event he also seeks to identify the knowledge, the strengths of the experiences, as well as the weaknesses they may have had and the perspectives ahead. It is about collecting experiences both in their healing results and in the cultural exchange that this has generated. And also that experiences are exchanged in relation to the promotion of mental health, focusing on the issue not only in physical medicine but with the approach to mental health within the approach to holistic health.

Exhibitors and organizers

Betty Souza, an indigenous disease of the Tikuna people of Colombia, and representatives of Cáritas Mare de Déu, from Peru, and from the Instituto Pe will participate as exhibitors in this seminar. Ezequiel Ramin – IPER, from Brazil. The event will take place at 14.00, Ecuador time, 20.00 in Italy, Spain and Portugal, and will be broadcast on YouTube of the Panamanian Ecclesial Network: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC86WePHS58KSYO6nKSe0yA

Socio-environmental justice of the Amazonian peoples

As a result of the Seminar, it hopes to create spaces to exchange and feed back these experiences of the different countries in order to further strengthen the Socio-environmental justice and the Good Living of the Amazonian peoples.

Alternatives to development

The axis of Socio-environmental Justice and Good Living of the REPAM seeks to build a consensus on the development of the approach to good living from the proposed proposals of indigenous and Amazonian peoples. Participates in people and institutions that have work experiences in alternatives to development, environmental social justice and training in sustainable practices.

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