The Power of Mountain Herbs | Season 1 | Episode 3 - Preserving the knowledge about the plants

50m 06s

The knowledge of the use of mountain herbs has been transmitted for centuries, if not millennia, inside families and institutions. Preserving this science is a mission that people all around the world are currently doing. Either the humble grandmother, who fears to not teach everything in time to her apprentice, the countryside doctor writing down what his patients learned from their parents or the 200 000 thousands books and 80 000 archived plants European monastery. In the end, everyone face the same problem. To make sure future generations can keep using what the elders spent so much time learning and preserving.