Amazon

00:00:34 Our perceptions of the Amazon are mostly mythical.

00:01:51 and with it 1/5 of the continental run-off water of the planet.

00:03:26 Mysteries of the healing arts are passed ― generation to generation.

00:04:28 Sipping the melt of ancient ice brings rejuvenation.

00:06:55 on its rush to join the Amazon.

00:08:54 His hope: to find cures to diseases which western medicine has not conquered.

00:10:09 At the "La Cueva de las Sechusas"

00:12:05 Its upper tier, where most of its life goes on has barely been visited.

00:13:11 The biodiversity of the Amazon is unique.

00:15:20 In mid-year, the Amazon rises to maximum flood

00:17:24 The thousands of miles of waterways remain the primary means of travel in the Amazon.

00:20:17 We know that fungi, have provided the world with Penicillin and other antibiotics

00:21:21 Others may remain, undiscovered.

00:22:26 of the outside world to stay hidden as in centuries past.

00:24:29 lives a tribe of Indians known as Zoë.

00:26:17 There is rumor that the Zoë have encountered a group of people living up to the north

00:27:08 The Zoë do not venture into the forbidden north

00:30:03 The Kurusar was killed by poison on the tip of the dart.

00:30:49 Another as heart medicine.

00:32:20 has allowed me to move freely about.

00:33:11 Each seeks to improve the health of humankind.

00:35:57 And if not I

20:00:00 of wood, water, air and green leaves.