MISSION
The mission of Green Medicine™ is to investigate and support research efforts on medicinal substances and medical foods from Peru.
ABOUT GREEN MEDICINE
GREEN MEDICINE is the website for information on Dr. Williams' research in the upper Amazon under the Institute for Amazonian Studies (IAS), which he founded in 1996, and the Pino Center for Traditional Healing in 2004. His intention is to advance the mission of Green Medicine by working closely with Peruvian research organizations, individual investigators, universities, socially and environmentally responsible businesses, and traditional tribes of the upper Amazon and Andes for the purpose of exploring the following areas of study:
Evolutionary Biology in Tropical Rainforests:
- Fragmentation of natural ecosystems
- Robustness of plant and animal evolution and behavior
- Complexity theory in natural ecosystems
Basic Research in the Therapeutic Value of Natural Compounds from Plants and Other Biological Substances
- Development of rainforest botanical and biological medicines and extracts from natural products including antiviral, anticancer, immunomodulatory, and health promoting adaptogenic substances
Healing Methods and Medicines of Traditional Tribal Peoples
- Ethnobotanical investigation for new plant medicines
- Ethnomedical investigation of indigenous healing practices in addition to plant medicines
- Consciousness exploration among indigenous people involving natural entheogenic compounds and medicinal plants
