Tag Archive for: Desmodium

Have You Heard of Desmodium?

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The year 2020 changed the ways many of us work. Millions of us sit at our own desks in front of screens connected to our employer via the Internet. By 2025, estimates say 36.2 million Americans in the workforce will be working remotely.1 If you are one of those millions, like I am, you know that after just a few hours of working, eyes get strained and muscles can tense up. A larger screen helped my eyes, but regularly standing to stretch did not give lasting relief to my aching muscles. It’s common knowledge that frequent and long-term use of muscle relaxants and pain killers can damage the stomach and liver, not to mention that thousands of deaths in America each year are caused by their side effects. I needed something safe and effective to help me work more comfortably. I found a solution in Royal Desmodium™. Within 10 minutes of taking this supplement, I will audibly sigh as the tension leaves my muscles! It’s a wonderful physical feeling that lasts a good long time for me. If you or someone you know would like to experience that, read on…

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Desmodium Adscendens: The Plant That Helps Us Breathe Better

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Many of you are understandably searching for natural and holistic ways to support your lung health and complement the current COVID therapeutics offered by conventional medicine. This is leading more people to discover a therapeutic botanical, Desmodium adscendens. I wanted to share my almost two decades of experience with this extraordinary medicinal plant.

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Camu-Aid to the Rescue!

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Botanicals like Camu Camu (Myrciaria dubia) and Cat’s Claw (Uncaria tomentosa) are widely used in naturopathic (natural medicine) circles for their antiviral and immune system-supporting properties. Camu Camu is the most potent source of natural Vitamin C on the planet, making it a powerhouse for immune system support. Desmodium (Desmodium adscendens) is another wonderful botanical that, while not known for its antiviral properties, promotes healthy lung function, relieves congestion, and promotes easy breathing – a major issue in both bacterial and viral pneumonia and a host of other upper and lower respiratory illnesses, including bronchitis and the common cold.

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Brazil’s president-elect threatens Amazon rainforest

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Jair Bolsonaro aims to boost mining, farming and dam building in Amazon.

Next year’s climate talks were due to take place in Brazil, but that has now been reversed by the President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has also made no secret of his desire to open the Amazon to mining, farming and dam building.

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Rainforest destruction from gold mining hits all-time high in Peru

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Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past five years, according to a new analysis by scientists at Wake Forest University’s Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA). Learn more…

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Water Women Reveal Need for Expansion of Our Social Mission

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Each time we go to visit the Camu Camu collectors who partner with us on the Rio Curaray in the Amazon River Basin, we learn more about who they are and what they need…

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Puerto Rico Water Filter Project

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We have all seen the aftermath of destruction caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico on every news channel across America…

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December 2015 Trip to Santa Maria

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Highlights from our December 2015 Trip to Santa Maria…

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2016 WWB New Year’s Card

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To our Beloved Whole World Botanicals Customers,

The founders of Whole World Botanicals returned so late in December from our working trip to Peru that our schedule for sending out our annual Holiday/New Year’s Card was completely thrown off! In these chaotic days of accelerated climate change, we wish you a healthy, purposeful, joyous and peaceful New Year! We live in times demanding the full force of our spirit to embrace and transform. Fortunately, we also continue to live in our dailyness, in our place and person-specific circle of meaning, challenge and contentment.

From the beginning, Whole World Botanicals was conceived as a for-profit company with social goals. The mission in Peru—to contribute to the well-being of our suppliers—the growers and collectors of the botanicals which we offer in the marketplace—has always been viewed by all of us as essential to our business model.

Our New Year’s photo this year is a celebration of the opening of a new phase of our Social Mission, capturing the moment on December 1, 2015, when Viana Muller, co-founder of Whole World Botanicals, meets some of the young mothers from La Comunidad Nativa de Santa Maria. In the absence of sufficient rain water, these mothers are forced to give dirty river water to their children to drink. Whole World Botanicals, in collaboration with the non-profit Water with Blessings, is making available state of the art water filters free of charge to mothers who choose to become Water Women. These Water Women take on the responsibility of providing pure drinking water, not only for their own family, but for three other families in their community.

We first met Santa Maria seven years ago when we asked our Camu-Camu powder processor to take us to a river community which gets cash income by picking the wild Camu-Camu berries which grow on the riverbanks. Santa Maria supplies WWB with the fresh Camu-Camu berries which grow wild along the riverbank of this tiny community.

To see photos of our visit to Santa Maria and to learn more about the introduction of our Water with Blessings project to this community, click anywhere on this e-card to go to the Social Mission section of our website.

With Warm Good Wishes,
Whole World Botanicals’ Founders & Staff