HAGATNA, Guam — Traditional Chamorro healer Bernice Nelson and her apprentices visited the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station wilderness Wednesday to harvest medicinal plants from an ...

Today, it has grown to 2.5 acres containing more than 200 medicinal plants (most are native to Guam, but there are also plants from China, the Philippines, Japan, Phonpei, Palau, and the ...

Marine Corps Activity Guam invited Chamorro traditional healers, or suruhanu and suruhana, to harvest medicinal plants and collect species for transplantation. Access program coordinator Dave ...

It’s already difficult for Guam’s Chamorro medicine women, or yo’åmte, to gather medicinal plants from traditional lands, which are now considered US military property. The new base ...

During the Liberation Day Parade, she added, GRMC’s float featured medicinal plants. The tourism fund ... a University of Guam professor who has partnered with the group for years.

Suruhana Bernice Nelson and apprentices visited the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station wilderness Wednesday to collect plants for traditional Chamorro medicine. Marine Corps Activity ...

HAGATNA, Guam — Traditional Chamorro healer Bernice Nelson and her apprentices visited the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station wilderness Wednesday to harvest medicinal plants from an ...