OAS family agriculture plan revives Mayan medicine

The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) of the OAS is developing in Guatemala a project named "Family Agriculture and Inclusion", working with associations of farmers in Mayan communities to rescue ancestral technologies to treat and cure poultry, using native grasses.

The Kakchi'keles Indians who inhabit the region of Chimaltenango are descendants of the Mayans with their traditions and customs, among them the ancestral medicine that has been passed down from generation to generation.