Abstract

Access to forest medicine products remains unequal between national and international contexts. This workshop brings together the Pará-based company FortParaOil, which originated with the first Japanese immigrants to the Acará area south of Belém do Pará, and which works with 50 partner families from the eastern Amazon. The community adopted the agroforestry approach to planting native species, following the continued education of the population, thus obtaining value-added products, some of which are food products and others such as fatty vegetable oils and butters with anti-inflammatory and moisturizing properties for small cosmetics and food industries. All this combined with the knowledge disseminated by the Tupi-Guarani Indigenous College and Clinic in its courses, whose mission is to teach and preserve the Indigenous Medicine of various native peoples, contributing to cultural appreciation and the advancement of human health. A concise synthesis of practices for identifying and using plants for medicinal, therapeutic, nutritional, insect repellent and anti-toxin purposes will be presented in October 2025 at the 3rd WCTCIM. This workshop aims not only to promote transparency of information on traditional indigenous medicine culture, but also to empower researchers, institutions and policy makers to promote the safe and evidence-based integration of forest medicine products into healthcare.