[LDV Project Archive] Benito Treviño: Lo que comemos, lo que nos cura, lo que usamos

Creator

Manuel F. Medrano, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Benito Treviño
Ricardo Camargo
Johnny Aguilar

Identifier

2703_Benito_Trevino_H264

Files

Creation Date

3-23-2000

Description

A documentary about Benito Treviño, an ethnobotanist who was born in Starr County. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, with a major in botany and minor in chemistry. Treviño, owner of the Rancho Lomitas, talks about the healing properties of local plants to cure or relieve discomfort in the body such as eye irritation, stomachache, headache, etc. He also demonstrates how to make a rope and paper with plants. Treviño shares the importance of preserving nature and to treat the land as a library where all the plants are books to learn from.

Notes

© Manuel F. Medrano and UTRGV.

English

Betacam (60) videocassette

Physical Description

.MP4, 01:01:30

Recommended Citation

Medrano, Manuel F.; Treviño, Benito; Camargo, Ricardo; and Aguilar, Johnny, "[LDV Project Archive] Benito Treviño: Lo que comemos, lo que nos cura, lo que usamos" (2000). Los Del Valle. 155.
https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/losdelvalle/155