The President of Bolivia, Luis Arce, claims the use of the ancestral medicine to fight infection as a method of coping coronavirus, asking Bolivians to “not lower their guard” in the face of fears of an outbreak.
“We continue to face the pandemic with possible outbreaks in many countries, we have seen it in Europe and we need to be vigilant, we cannot lower our guardthe governor said yesterday at the inauguration of a gathering of indigenous people in the Cochabamba region, the news agency reported Tlam.
Arce, claiming the knowledge and knowledge of the indigenous peoples, pointed out that “ we have resorted to those herbs that our brethren knew ancestral to fight the pandemic and we have done it successfully in the different nationalities and peoples of our Latin America ”.
Since the first cases of sick people in the country were known, the indigenous sectors, mainly Aymara and Quechuas, have used various natural products, to which they healing powers. Such products, such as eucalyptus, wira wira, and chamomile, are considered antibacterial and expectorant agents that indigenous shamans say help create and strengthen the immune system.
At the same time a district in the heart of the city Peace began to be epidemiologically monitored today, and for a week, before a targeted regrowth of coronavirus cases. Municipal personnel brigades are engaged in washing supply markets near Miraflores, home to a network of public hospitals, the mythical Hernando Siles Stadium and the headquarters of the High Command of the Armed Forces.
The region Santa Cruz It also took steps to strengthen its health system after its government declared earlier this week that it was dealing with a “second wave” of the pandemic.
Bolivia has recorded more than 9,000 deaths and infected approximately 148,600 with the coronavirus since March.