Amazon

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

00:01:48 The Amazon river flows toward the rising sun

00:03:21 Whisper in pukina ― the secret language of the Incas.

00:04:21 It is said that water trickling from the glaciers of Akomani

00:06:20 lies only 200 miles as the condor flies, from Mamani's homeland.

00:08:47 that will heal humanity's ills.

00:09:32 before their life saving attributes are discovered.

00:11:18 For millions of years

00:12:44 No one knows how many species of living things exist ...

00:14:48 The Sloth called "perezoso", or lazy-one in Spanish ...

00:15:57 The Pipato is almost invisible, until it eats.

00:18:45 Many are almost as skillful as the Kallawaya with herbal remedies.

00:20:47 which ended a few thousand years ago.

00:21:54 Orlando Villas Bôas and his brothers left São Paulo with an expedition called:

00:22:50 In time, the Villas Bôas were overcome by roadbuilders, malaria and old age.

00:24:40 Do we artificially isolate them?

00:26:26 Some of the men agree to show me where the strangers had been seen.

00:27:15 and the hills of Cuminapanema touch the stars.

00:30:10 It is an exotic potion made from plants and called "curare".

00:30:54 What Western scientists once dismissed as magic

00:32:26 With distances so great, exchange of a cure for a very fast ride

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.