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Over the centuries various tribes people and indigenous groups from around the world have developed an intricate knowledge of the medicinal qualities of their native plants. Living off the land has been a necessity and joy, and nature has provided for all of life's needs and simpler wants - shelter, food, entertainment and medicine. With the much hyped and more than occasionally maligned rise of globalization, this once regionalized knowledge has been gathered, tested, proved and shared.

Exploitation in today's interconnected business world is common but by no means inevitable, there are vital information-sharing possibilities that exist and the spread of natural medicines is one such example. Carefully transferred from the heart of the Amazon, the Kalahari interior or simply the field across the road these simple, ancient, recipes tested by time have emerged via the laboratories of modern medicine makers, packed into protective containers and are now available on the wider world market.

 Natural medicines are inspired by stories such as that of the Southern African Kalahari bushmen who would, and still do, chew on specific roots [harpagophytum procumbens] to suppress their appetite during hunts that could take them away from camp for days at a time, or Native American tribes who crushed certain flowers such as the Chamomile [Matricaria recutita] for a few drops of juice that acted as effective disinfectants and the beautiful simplicity of the English dockweed conveniently found in most places where the rash-producing nettle lurks, the former acts as a natural cure for the latter.

In the native El Salvador where Wegerich is based Balsamo [myroxylon balsamiferum] remains a popular and effective solution for open cuts, rashes, bites and blended with other natural ingredients a cough medicine too. A tall proud tree the sap is extracted mainly by hand as the trunk is scaled and a simple cut made into the tree. Moments later the sap emerges from the cut and is collected. The cut rapidly heals and it is estimated that the same tree may be farmed for up to 30 years.

So careful were the Spanish explorers to guard this precious sap, the story goes, that they named it Balsama de Peru after a similar yet less productive tree in said country hoping rival explorers would waste time and resources searching for their own supply thousand of miles to the south.

Producers of natural medicines are usually fully qualified pharmacists and openly acknowledge when their medicines can and cannot help an ailment but for a range of illnesses and conditions whose extent continues to grow nature provides a non-invasive antidote whose side-affects in comparison to chemical medicines are negligible, and this idea of looking to nature for a solution is the guiding principal behind Wegerich Natural Medicines.

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