The AmazonHerb company has created a unique model of ecobusiness with the indigenous people of the rainforest to empower them to protect the rainforest by becoming its legal custodians.  A significant amount of the company’s profit is invested, along with a lot of heart and deep respect, in the legal support the indigenous people need to obtain the land titles and deeds so they can control what happens to this precious ecosystem.  Since the herbs have a market value that far exceeds anything that can be marketed through destroying the rainforest (tropical wood, soybean cultivation, oil, gold), the tribes working with the AmazonHerb company have no incentive to ever sell their land for deforestation.  Rather than a charity – based ecological project, the AmazonHerb model proves that it is more profitable to keep the rainforest intact.  The empowerment of the indigenous people, who are not recipients of charity here, but partners whose knowledge about the herbs is the foundation for the company, is truly remarkable.  One key policy of the AmazonHerb company is the use of the indigenous knowledge in harvesting plants in a caretaking way.  For example, the well – known immune boosting herb una de gato (uncario tomatosa) is now a popular product from the Amazon rainforest.  Most companies simply cut the plant above the ground which kills it.  The tribal people who harvest herbs for the AmazonHerb company cut una de gato ten feet above the ground, which allows the plant to fully recover.   

The ethical and ecological foundation of the AmazonHerb company certainly plays a key role in the quality of these herbs.  In an age where the interconnectedness of all things is more and more validated by emerging frontiers of science, a company whose products we use for our health needs to be a contributor to the health of the planet as a whole.  The AmazonHerb company is a beatiful manifestation of this new vision of eecobusiness.  I wish you great joy and radiant health in your discovery of these herbal treasures.

Herbs from the Amazon rainforest are not medicine, they are foods and should be primarily seen as such.  All of theses herbs increase a person’s life force and attunement to the harmonizing energies of nature, the harmonic structures of the quantum field.  While some specific effects can be pointed out based on empirical research, studies of single herbs and anecdotal evidence, once own direct experience should be the main guiding light in using these products.  With wild foods, our insticts function remarkably well.  We may encounter a time of cleansing where we experience some uncomfortable symptoms, but generally these pass quickly with these herbs.  You can read through the specific descriptions of the different products and let your intuitiond ecide where to start and what  could be most useful to your body at this point. 

Treasure Tea

Treasure tea is a wonderful basic product for deep cleansing and immune stimulation.  Jatoba bark porvides a uniquely powerful protection against fungus and yeast.  The Jatoba tree lives in swampy areay where fungus and molds thrives, so this tree is naturally equipped with a powerful immunse system designed to keep of these little critters.  We found that when we wipe mold off a fruit or coconut with a used bag of treasure tea, the mold does not return!  Additionally, una de gato and lapacho provide immune enhancing properties and chanca piedra can help to dissolve calcifications. 

Pure Camu

The floodbasins of the Amazon river are the home of the camu tree, which produces camu camu, the vitamin C – richest fruit on earth.  For several months every year, these trees are under water.  When the water recedes, the sediments settle, providing the trees with a mineral profile of the entire Amazon basin.  In addition of supplying natural vitamin C, the  pure camu provides a rich spectrum of minerals, B – vitamins and precursos to neurotransmitters.  Pure Camu is reported by many to enhance mood and camu camu has been recognized as the most powerful natural anti – depressant by many holistic doctors.  While you can ourchase camu camu from many sources, the AmazonHerb company was hesitant for a long time to offer it as a product.  The reasin is the extremely delicate nature of camu camu.  If you buy a bag or bottle of powdered camu camu, it will lose 25 – 40% of its vitamin C and electrical vitality within the first days after opening.  A naturopath is Germany found significant losses of vitality commencing 15 minutes after opening a package of camu camu.  For this reason, AmazonHerb offer each dosage of pure camu in an individual fresh pack, which is the only way to retain the precious properties of this amazing fruit.  It is also one of the few camu camu products that are not heated and come from the whole fruit, including the nutrient – dense skin.  Pure camu taken once or twice a day on emtpy stomach is a wonderful support for harmonious whole brain functioning and overall nutrient supply. 

Powermix

A favorite herbal blend for athletes, Powermix consists of maca, muira purama, kiwicha, chuchuiwasi and suma.  These herbs are used traditionally by the native people of South America for stamina, sexual energy, muscular strength and vitality.  Power Mix builds grounding energy in the lower chakras and can give a healthy foundation for spriritual expansion.  The effects are maximized if you exercise while slightly hungry and then take Powermix immediately afterwards.  The cycle of hunger, exercise and then satiation with nutrients maximizes the hormone – supporting effect of Powermix.  We need the rigth nutrients as precursors for hormones, as they are found in maca, muira puama and suma and we also need to alternate between real hunger and eating when we created an actual physical need for it by allowing hunger and exercising.  Powermix is the perfect food to help our body to produce healthy levels of hormones.

Sangre de Drago

OPC’s have received wide recognition in recent years as a superantioxidant.  The croton lecheri tree in the Amazon rainforest is by far the most concentrated producer of this remarkalbe antioxidant on earth, because its sap has a concentration of 90% pure OPC’s.  This is a completely unique natural concentration of antioxidants in any herb or food source.  The pharmaceutical industry is using this sap to eliminate damaging side effects of allopathic drugs and add it for example to the drugs used to treat AIDS.  However, their way of harvesting the sap is destroying the trees.  Sangre de Drago from the AmazonHerb company is harvested in a respectful way by the indigenous people that allows the tree to fully recover.  It is an amazing product for cuts and wounds on the skin.  Since OPC’s as well as tannins which are also found in Sangre de Drago have strong anti – inflammatory properties, it has beend used by many naturopathic doctors for inflammatory conditions.  Sangre de Drago is an ingredient in many AmazonHerb products.

Aquazon

AFA (Aquanizomenon flos Aqua), the microalgae grwoing wild in Klamath lake, Oregon, is  a well – recognized superfood.  It has an amazing concentration of amino acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, minerals and trace elements and electrical life force.  AFA regenerates after exposure to radioactive pollution more effectively than any other known organism.  It has been usen widely to enahnce brain function, to alkalize the body and provide a general spectrum of micro – nutrients.  The limitation of taking AFA alone is found in its stimulating and expansive effect on the brain, which can be experienced by some people as ungrounding.  From an ayurvedic point of view, AFA can increase vata in some people to create an imbalance.  Aquazon combines AFA with a wild sea water algae, fucus, which is harvested from the coast of Brazil.  Fucus is grounding and centering and offers the perfect balance for the epanding effects of AFA.  Fucus is sodium – dominant, while AFA is potassium – dominant, fucus grows in sea water on the Southern hemisphere, while AFA grows in fresh water on the Northern hemisphere…I think you get the picture.

Choca Maca

Chocolate has made a comeback in recent years as a health food.  Cacao in and of itself has many health properties and has gotten a bad reputaion because it is usually processed into a junk food with sugar and other harmful ingredients.  Cacao is a rich source of antioxidants, magnesium and brain – supporting nutrients.  It was considered a sacred food by many indigenous populations throughout South America.  Choca Maca is made from organic cacao without refined sugars and boosted with a variety of Amazon herbs, including maca, muira puma, jatoba, camu camu, catauba and suma.  Choca Maca is reported by many enthusiastic chocolate lovers to provide a gently uplifting energy without the blood sugar crash and addictive cycle that follows the consumption of junk food chocolate.  Each six gram ball of Choca Maca contains the equivalent of two capsules of wild herbs!  I have observed that Choca Maca is especially valuable to people’s well – being when they do not receive enough sunlight on their skin.