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In Argentina, an Innovative Traditional and Natural Medicine Initiative Sprouts from Urban Agriculture<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Rodrigo Oleaga<\/div>\n
Antonio Latucca, director and co-founder of Rosario’s Urban Agriculture Program, helps residents of the Medical Student House create their community garden in May 2015.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Trading jokes with his housemates as the sun sets over downtown Rosario, Argentina, nursing student Miguel Suarez drags a hose across the courtyard of the Medical Student House to water a leafy burrito plant (Aloysia polystachia<\/em>). Leaning from a lawn chair to pick small leaves, agronomist Custodio “Lucho” Lemos explains that burrito herbal infusions are popular remedies for digestive and liver disorders in traditional Guaran\u00ed folk medicine in northern Argentina and Paraguay. A 2012 Brazilian study in the\u00a0Journal of Medicinal Plants Research<\/em>\u00a0found burrito’s oil more effective against\u00a0E. coli<\/em>,\u00a0Candida<\/em>, and\u00a0Trichophyton\u00a0<\/em>bacteria than first-line commercial drugs Gentomycin, Amphotericin B, and Terbinafine, respectively.1<\/sup><\/p>\n

A block from the historic central avenue Boulevard Oro\u00f1o, the Medical Student House is part of the Medical School at the National University of Rosario, a city of 1.3 million best known as the hometown of Leonel Messi and Che Guevara. But on Tuesday evenings like this one, the dozen residents have been putting textbooks aside and becoming urban farmers in the new community garden which opened in their courtyard last May.<\/p>\n

“It’s called kenaf,” says a female speech therapy student in the Medical Student House garden. She holds out a long segment of pale green stalk, tugging at the fibers. “You know Ford uses it now inside car doors? It’s an acoustic insulator\u2014and very light. I want to know if we can use it inside hearing aids? ” she says, tapping on the back of her ear.<\/p>\n

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In Argentina, an Innovative Traditional and Natural Medicine Initiative Sprouts from Urban Agriculture Rodrigo Oleaga Antonio Latucca, director and co-founder of Rosario’s Urban Agriculture Program, helps residents of the Medical Student House create their community garden in May 2015. Trading jokes with his housemates as the sun sets over downtown Rosario, Argentina, nursing student Miguel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13990,2251,13991,13988,13989],"class_list":["post-20897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-antonio-lattice","tag-argentina","tag-robert-c-thornett","tag-solutions-journal","tag-urban-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20898,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897\/revisions\/20898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}