Happy community day! ๐
The Natural Medicine community is growing more and more every day and it is wonderful, many times we interact with several people but we need to know them a little bit more
Behind the keyboard there are thousands of stories that deserve to be told and much more deserves to be heard.
A community that cares about its members shows that it is not only a stranger that came to share, but is part of a big family
This challenge of NM from my point of view, wants us to know each other and integrate more! Making us feel supported and "family
These are my 5 questions...
I think I'll do some others, because it's really great to answer them (of course, when my little Santiago and the furry Sasha leave me)
- How did your path start on this path / with this practice?
I always, always liked the environment, I wanted to study environmental engineering, but... Well my parents didn't agree, the option that was a shortcut and I also liked it was chemical engineering.
I am from Venezuela and here you live and breathe because of oil, I have hated it because of natural disasters, to see how animals and the ecosystem suffer.
I wanted to learn to be a different Chemical Engineer, without living from oil, and to remedy so much damage that has been done. One professor certainly said:
"We chemical engineers have the responsibility to fix the damage we have done"
On my way I found teachers who saw the career through an environmental lens, so I was profiling, learning and meeting with the same interests. I knew that for everything traditional there are natural alternatives.
With my knowledge I already knew how to start and continue in the natural world in a conscious way and so I began to prepare things for me, and then create my enterprise.
How did your path start on this path / with this practice?
I always, always liked the environment, I wanted to study environmental engineering, but... Well my parents didn't agree, the option that was a shortcut and I also liked it was chemical engineering.
I am from Venezuela and here you live and breathe because of oil, I have hated it because of natural disasters, to see how animals and the ecosystem suffer.
I wanted to learn to be a different Chemical Engineer, without living from oil, and to remedy so much damage that has been done. One professor certainly said:
"We chemical engineers have the responsibility to fix the damage we have done"
On my way I found teachers who saw the career through an environmental lens, so I was profiling, learning and meeting with the same interests. I knew that for everything traditional there are natural alternatives.
With my knowledge I already knew how to start and continue in the natural world in a conscious way and so I began to prepare things for me, and then create my enterprise.
Do you think this boom of the natural is just another trend or is society really starting to wake up?
I firmly believe that society is starting to wake up, nature is screaming at us wildly that we are killing it, and its death would be ours
Why isn't all medicine natural if everything comes from nature?
The word pharmacist comes from the Greek word farmakon, which means "herb of healing and enchantment" (Natural, 1998)
Natural, M. (1998). The Healing Herbs. Madrid: Bloque Editorial DEARMAS.
Although everything is of natural origin, it goes through a process of transformation until it reaches the desired product
For example, many essential oils, in order to obtain a better yield, use an extraction process (so that they understand the extraction process, remember how they prepare the coffee, they put the ground coffee in a strainer mesh and they pass the hot water to it, well, the water is the solvent, the coffee is the material to which we are going to extract its properties), in the case of the essential oils, solvents can be used up to a certain degree that are toxic, not suitable for consumption, as long as they obtain a greater quantity of essential oil. In this way, little by little, properties are lost, adding additives to obtain products with a quick effect, so that they cease to be natural.
These are my first 5 questions, I hope that a large part of the community will join the challenge and get to know each other a little better
En Espaรฑol
Feliiiz dรญa comunidad!
La comunidad de Natural Medicine cada dia crece mas y mas y es maravilloso, muchas veces interactuamos con varias personas pero hace falta conocerlas un poquito mรกs
Detrรกs del teclado hay miles de historias que merecen ser contadas y mucho mรกs merecen ser escuchadas.
Una comunidad que se interese por sus miembros muestra que no es solo un desconocido que llego a compartir, sino es parte de una gran familia
Este reto de NM desde mi punto de vista, desea que nos conozcamos y nos integremos mas! Haciendonos sentir apoyados y en โfamiliaโ
Estas son mis 5 preguntasโฆ
Creo que hare algunas otras, porque realmente es genial responderlas (Claro cuando mi pequeรฑo Santiago y la peludita Sasha me deje)
ยฟCรณmo empezรณ tu camino en este camino / con esta prรกctica?
Siempre, siempre me ha gustado el medio ambiente, quise estudiar ingenierรญa ambiental, peroโฆ Bueno mis padres no estaban de acuerdo, la opciรณn que era un atajo y tambiรฉn me gustaba era ingenierรญa quรญmica.
Soy de Venezuela y aquรญ se vive y se respira por el petrรณleo, lo he detestado por los desastres naturales, ver como sufren los animales y el ecosistema.
Querรญa aprender a ser un Ingeniero Quรญmico diferente, sin vivir del petrรณleo, y remediar tanto daรฑo que se ha hecho.. Un profesor ciertamente dijo:
โLos ingeniero quรญmicos tenemos la responsabilidad de arreglar el daรฑo que hemos hechoโ
Durante mi camino encontrรฉ profesores que veรญan la carrera con una รณptica ambiental, asรญ me fui perfilando, aprendiendo y conociendo con los mismos intereses. Conocรญ que para todo lo tradicional hay alternativas naturales.
Con mis conocimientos ya sabรญa cรณmo empezar y continuar en el mundo natural de forma consiente y asรญ inicie a preparar cosas para mรญ, y luego crear mi emprendimiento.
ยฟCuรกl cree que ha sido su aprendizaje mรกs importante durante su proceso?
El Mundo natural es maravilloso, muchas veces por tener resultados rรกpidos optamos por mรฉtodos artificiales que a largo plazo no son beneficiosos, he retomado la paciencia, para el mundo natural la paciencia es fundamental.
ยฟCuรกles serรญan sus principales recomendaciones para alguien que se inicia en este camino / prรกctica?
Leer mucho!
Unirse a grupos y comunidades, encontraras muchรญsimo apoyo.
Tambiรฉn tener paciencia y confiar que la naturaleza sabe hacer su trabajo
ยฟCrees que este boom de lo natural es solo una tendencia mรกs o la sociedad realmente empieza a despertar?
Creo firmemente que la sociedad comienza a despertar, la naturaleza nos grita salvajemente que la estamos matando, y su muerte seria la nuestra
ยฟPor quรฉ no toda la medicina es natural si todo proviene de la naturaleza?
La palabra farmacรฉutico proviene del vocablo griego farmakon, que significa โhierba de curar y hechizarโ (Natural, 1998)
Natural, M. (1998). Las Hierbas Curativas. Madrid: Bloque Editorial DEARMAS.
Aunque todo tenga origen natural, pasa por un proceso de transformaciรณn hasta llegar al producto deseado
Por ejemplo, muchos aceites esenciales para obtener mejor rendimiento se utiliza un proceso de extracciรณn (para que entiendan el proceso de extracciรณn, recuerden como preparan el cafรฉ, el cafรฉ molido lo ponen en una malla colador y le pasan el agua caliente, bien, el agua es el solvente, el cafรฉ es el material al que le vamos a extraer sus propiedades), en el caso de los aceites esenciales, se pueden utilizar solventes hasta cierto grado tรณxicos, no aptos para consumo, con tal de obtener mayor cantidad de aceite esencial. Asรญ poco a poco, se van perdiendo propiedades, aรฑadiendo aditivos para obtener productos de efecto rรกpido, asรญ deje de ser natural
Estas son mis primeras 5 preguntas, espero que gran parte de la comunidad se una al reto y nos conozcamos un poco mรกs
