All about Guarana, the most sought after fruit in the Amazon: scientific name, taxonomy, properties, medicinal uses and more.

Stonebreaker, stone cachón or stone breaker (Phyllanthus niruri), a medicine used to dissolve kidney and gallstones.

The exploitation of the rubber tree 🔥: historical analysis of a perverse industry based on slavery and the genocide of the indigenous people of the Amazon.

Water, sometimes, is difficult to find if you are in the middle of the jungle, far from some of the many bodies of fresh water that characterize the basin

Fires in the Amazon: natural and caused.of the canopy and understory. Increasing frequency. What is endangered when the Amazon catches fire?

Food taboos typical of Amazonian cultures. Taboos associated with hunting, fishing, motherhood, medicine and religion. Neophilia and neophobia

Review of the book Naked in the Jungle. Survival and Subsistence, written by the Venezuelan explorer and scientist Charles Brewer-Carias

On December 23, 1971, the Lima airport was very busy and hectic. It was the eve of Christmas day, and many people were anxious

I had studied for many years the peculiarities of the Amazonian culture Leer más