Medicinal Plants

Medicinal Plants Workshops – These workshops help reinforce the importance of traditional plant-based medicines. The Association helps document and preserve local plant knowledge.

Classes focus on different procedures to make teas, tinctures, salves, soaps and shampoo. Medicinal plants are harvested at the Qachuu Aloom demonstration site, as well as from the communities, to sell locally and also around Guatemala. Reinforcing the importance of medicinal plant use is helping to save local species that were otherwise often dismissed as ‘weeds.’