2024, Vol. 12, Issue 4, Part A

author(s)
Jane Segleau Earle

abstract
Leishmaniasis is a disease that affects people in at least 98 countries. Currently used pharmacological drugs have significant side effects in up to 25% of patients. Alternatively, communities all over the world have been healing cutaneous leishmania using plants. This article describes the most promising plants used against cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Costa Rican Caribbean. For this purpose, experts, doctors, local therapists, and people who recovered from the disease only using natural remedies, were interviewed. Twelve plants were successful. It is concluded that it is possible to cure the disease with natural methods but that much more research is needed to be able to adequately compare methods and develop a naturopathic protocol.