I’m a naturopath and natural medicine lecturer. I love traveling, drumming and being in
nature. I grew up in Arad, a small desert town situated right above the Dead Sea. After a
long journey around the world, I came back to Israel with my wife, Becky, and here we had
our three daughters,
Ella, Gaya and Mika.
As a ‘desert child’ I always used to run from school straight to the gullies, looking for differ-
ent plants and animals, slowly falling in love with the desert’s expansiveness and quietness.
Desert medicine combines two of my greatest loves: nature and healing. According to an
old Bedouin folktale, God created the camel from a cloud and the Bedouin from the wind
– so that they both remain as free as the elements of nature….; indeed, the Bedouins are
famous for their use of desert herbs for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.
In the workshop, we will become acquainted with the medicinal attributes of desert plants,
explore home remedies, discover their effectiveness in treating common health problems
and how to use them, and finally, experience cosmetics and skin nourishment prod-
ucts made from desert plants.
Desert Medicine 3
(Green wrist-band)
Lior Oknin
