Reflection on health and well-being

Date:07/10/2010
Being from Costa Rica I have learned that plants and nature have a lot of medicinal benefits for humans. Im not an expert in medicine but im pretty sure that almost all medicines come from plants and sometime I start to think that as the live link to where deforestation is growing; later in the Earth life where are we going to get all our medicines from? Because if we keep up this rate of deforestation sooner or later mostly all of the forest will be gone. Not only will the medicinal benefits disappear but also the fauna that needs this flora as well. An example of a medicinal tree that I learned about during my trip to ECHO was Moringa and all the benefits from the leaves were really suprising.