A group of indigenous women and forest communities from the Mesoamerican region created the book "Recetario de Medicina Tradicional Ancestral Mesoamericana", as a sample of the breadth of traditional knowledge and healing properties that exist in the forests to treat any disease. For example, to prevent and treat the COVID-19 virus. It also aims to call for the inclusion of indigenous and community women, transmitters of ancestral knowledge, in environmental decision-making, protection and preservation of native forests.

El proyecto se realizó a través de la Coordinadora de Mujeres Líderes Territoriales de Mesoamérica (CMLT), unidad semiautónoma de la Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques (AMPB), y se presentó en el marco del Día Internacional de la Resistencia Indígena, martes 12 de octubre, en el evento virtual “Farmacias Vivientes”, en honor a las plantas que sobrevivieron a más de 500 años de colonización y al impacto del cambio climático.

The book has 40 recipes that are protected by the category "Ancestral Traditional Knowledge" elaborated with five native plants per village of the region, in which it contains; the scientific name of each plant, the explanation of its medicinal uses and the way of preparation, respecting the ancestral traditional recipes that belong to the cultural heritage coming from the communities and native villages of:

- Nahuatl of the Sierra Zongolica of Mexico

- Petén forest communities caring for Guatemala's Mayan Biosphere Reserve

- Miskito People of the Mosquitia of Honduras and Nicaragua

- Mayangna people of the Bosawas Reserve in Nicaragua

- Bribri and Cabécar peoples who cohabit La Amistad International Park

- Gunas and Emberá people of Panama together with the Wounaan, Buglé and Ngäbe.

In order to promote the rescue of ancestral traditional medicine and the exchange of knowledge among brother peoples, the book will be distributed mainly in the communities where the recipes were compiled, so that they can be used as a guide to identify and plant medicinal plant gardens or "living pharmacies", as was the pre-Columbian custom.

It will also be available digitally, so that anyone can purchase it. The book seeks to remind us that there are solutions to humanity's problems in the forests and in the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples and local communities, for example, the recipes recently created to treat COVID-19 with medicinal plant infusions.