Journey to the Exotic Caribbean Island of Curaçao

Where healer Dinah Veeris is on a one-woman crusade to preserve her homeland's threatened medicinal plants

Journey to the exotic Caribbean island of Curaçao where healer Dinah Veeris is on a one-woman crusade to preserve her homeland's threatened medicinal plants. She is also saving the wisdom of a vanishing generation of healers whose practices are steeped in African and Native American lore. And see how scientists are unlocking the power of the island's botanical wealth - from the Divi Divi tree's amazing ability to fight staph infections to Mermaid's Hair, a coastal blue-green algae with the promise of cancer cures.

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