westindianheaux:witchdoctorpoet:Dinah Veeris, Master Healer and creator of Den Paradera Dinah V
westindianheaux:witchdoctorpoet:Dinah Veeris, Master Healer and creator of Den Paradera Dinah Veeris gives insight regarding the African involvement in plant-based medicine and healing traditions. Slave healers cultivated some of the most powerful and resilient healing communities on this planet. The very essence of survival, resistance, and communal preservation are the same pillars that guide Dinah Veeris in her work to preserve the traditional medicinal plants of Curaçao.Also the enslaved people learned a lot about the local plants from the native peoples (specifically kalinago in Saint Lucia). -- source link