Mala Hierba

Mala Hierba, in Spanish slang, is the name given to the weeds we consider useless or simply ugly enough to be chopped out from our gardens. In our minds they shouldn’t be there. Fighting nature instead of embracing it is a common practice of modern human activity. The so called “social development” tends to disappear nature from our immediate world and to annihilate the knowledge that, through millennia, our ancestors were able to acquire.

“Mala Hierba” is mostly a collection of medicinal herbs and their uses, but is also a remainder that the elder which bare these knowledge do not have the opportunity to keep their wisdom alive since their children are more worried about how to achieve the life that occident has placed deep in their minds.

In Mexico we have over sixty-five different indigenous cultures. For centuries their traditional medicine has been treated as heresy. Due to the lack of a real sustainable development project designed for them to keep their traditions and embrace their culture, we are in the edge of loosing that knowledge in one generation time.