About Green Medicine

Science & Nature Working Together

Green Medicine is the trademark 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 creation of the institute and healing center 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.
• Consciousness exploration among indigenous people involving entheogenic compounds and medicinal plants.