Beneficial plants are everywhere
Medicinal, useful, and nutritious plants hold the potential to restore both human health and ecological balance.
BPRA’s mission is to protect these vital plants, research them, and preserve the invaluable indigenous and traditional knowledge that sustains their continued use.
Medicinal plants were the mainstay of medicine for centuries.
Many notable pharmaceutical drugs are plant derived compounds that were first isolated from botanical sources ie. aspirin (willow bark), quinine (cinchona), opium/morphine (opium poppy), metformin (goat’s rue), pseudoephedrine (ma huang), taxol (yew tree), vincristine (Madagascar periwinkle).
BPRA Values
We believe in Indigenous sovereignty.
We believe that nature has remedies to heal.
We believe in restoring traditional knowledge of the use of plants for all people around the world.
We believe in the importance of conservation of land, languages, cultures, flora and fauna.
We believe the responsibility of shared resources and reciprocity in all business and research endeavors.
Founded in 1979, and reinstated in 2024, BPRA is a nonprofit that supports the research of plants to improve human and planetary health.
Dr. Andrew Weil is one of the founding members of BPRA, who has dedicated in life to support health and wellbeing of humans.
Your donation supports researchers from around the globe that are supporting their local community to preserve precious plant knowledge and further research.
