Bushmen - Healing power of nature
322 views · Published 8 June 2009 · 2:00 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: DocsOnline · 2009 · Travel & Events
Scene from "Bushman's secret", a documentary by Rehad Desai. If you are interested in the full high resolution version, please visit: https://docsonline.tv/bushmans-secret/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_content=bushmen--healing-power-of-nature Story The Bushman's secret is a story about how western pharmaceutical industry is benefiting from age-old knowledge and traditions still found in the Kalahari desert in Africa. Unilever has for example shown interest in developing the local Hoodia herb into a natural slimming drug. This however happens at the expense of the Khomani people who have been the herb's caretaker for many centuries.
