The book is not an invitation to replace modern high-tech diagnoses with oracle consultations using cowrie shells in the future, nor to protect oneself from diseases with amulets. It is about connecting us with the healing power of nature through traditional herbal medicine. Ethno-medicine is the experiential traditional knowledge of peoples and tribes regarding health, illness, and healing, developed over centuries and millennia, but tested millions of times. The Native Americans were giants in herbal knowledge when Columbus entered the New World - Europeans were comparatively dwarfs. The homeland of the Native Americans was an immeasurable natural pharmacy. The high valleys and slopes of the longest mountain range on Earth - the Andes, which rise up to 7,000 meters - and the world's largest rainforest in the Amazon, a steaming and fragrant labyrinth, as well as the prairies.