HEALTH FORAGER
Foraging for
health Learn to heal in nature.
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hile many of us know that we should eat healthily (don’t eat this, do eat that…), we are also very reliant on vitamin supplements and conventional pharmaceuticals. But while we’re learning about what to put into our bodies, why not extend that knowledge to natural medicines? We spoke to medicinal plant researcher JeanFrancois Sobiecki, who is also an avid nature explorer and loves to teach people about his own passion: medicinal plants. “I have had a lifelong interest in medicinal plants and have been studying African medicinal plants for over a decade, on their traditional uses as foods, medicines, tonics and cosmetics. I also love taking people into nature to heal, so I have combined these
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