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Plants, Herbs, and Flowers to Improve Your Health
By: Jose Mayo | Photos: Joaquin Vinas and Jorge Perez
A museum and heritage site is located in La Sierrita (the Little Mountain Range), in the central Province of Cienfuegos, where medicinal and aromatic plants and herbs are cultivated. There, a young doctor and a farmer have joined forces to develop traditional medicine.
The “Museo de Sitio de las Plantas Medicinales en Cuba Gallego Otero” is the only museum in the world dedicated to medicinal and aromatic plants and herbs, reflecting the achievements made in researching natural products in Cuba.
The architect of the unusual facility, located in the foothills of the Escambray Mountain Range, is Dr. Rodolfo Arencibia who has been connected with traditional medicine since he was a student at the Medical Institute of Havana
A museum and heritage site is located in La Sierrita (the Little Mountain Range), in the central Province of Cienfuegos, where medicinal and aromatic plants and herbs are cultivated. There, a young doctor and a farmer have joined forces to develop traditional medicine.
herbs, reflecting the achievements made in researching natural products in Cuba. 
