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Listen "The Gond Tribe’s Healing Secrets: Wild Foods, Rituals, and Living as One With the Forest with Nishanth Gurav"
Episode Synopsis
Why you need to hear this episode with Nishanth Gurav
What if the key to healing our bodies, our spirits, and our planet has been preserved for thousands of years — by people living in deep relationship with the land?
In this unforgettable conversation, ethnobotanist Nishanth Gurav takes us inside the Gond Tribe of India, considered one of the oldest Indigenous communities in the world. Nishanth has lived with the Gond for nearly two years, documenting their wild foods, sacred groves, and medicinal rituals — and what he shares will change how you see the plants outside your door.
This isn’t theory. It’s lived wisdom. And it may just be the medicine our modern world is starving for.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
🌿 Why the Gond people eat 10–20 wild greens a day and never use the word “weed” 🌿 How sacred groves protect biodiversity more effectively than modern conservation laws 🌿 The barefoot ritual that dissolves the separation between human and forest 🌿 How simple fermented foods and herbal kitchens keep disease away 🌿 The Gond approach to bone-setting, gut healing, and skin health using only local plants 🌿 Why Indigenous wisdom offers real solutions to our modern crises: climate, health, and mental well-being
Nishanth isn’t just my guest today — he’s also my teaching partner inside Medical Botany: Mastery of the Flowering Plant Medicines. Every Wednesday, he joins us live to share his ethnobotanical knowledge and stories directly with Medical Botany apprentices. Alumni always comment how much they loved Nishant's teachings in Medical Botany. It is a true honor to have him join us in Medical Botany.
If this episode stirred something in you, don’t just listen — come learn from Nishanth himself.
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We begin September 10, 2025, and I can’t wait for you to experience this life-changing apprenticeship.
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With Love and Green Blessings,
April Punsalan
In God we trust