The TFFSA Foundation supports a broad range of projects and efforts in the area of alternative healing modalities, research and education, on medicinal, therapeutic, and health-promoting plants and therapies. Priority emphasis is on providing resources for underprivileged communities to have access to alternative therapies for mental, physical and spiritual healing.
We collaborate with a network of alternative medicine centers similar to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Guanacaste Costa Rica that focus on plant medicine therapies from around the globe. Combining ancient wisdom traditions with modern scientific research and technology, the organizations that we support provide a way for indiginous healing traditions to take their place alongside allopathic medicinal treatment to provide the highest quality and safety for individuals to heal mind, body and soul.
Essential medical drugs are derived from plants – like pain relieving morphine from opium poppy and anti-inflammatory aspirin derived from salicin in white willow bark. In fact, 50% of all new drugs over the past 30 years come from plants. Plant medicines are different from single drug medicine – they contain more than one active ingredient and so work by more than one way to treat a condition. These alternative therapies recapture our forgotten knowledge. Humans have evolved to use the plants around them as medicine. Today 60% of people across the world effectively treat common ailments with plant medicine. Science is now showing the different ways that plant medicines work to produce their effects. In fact, many foodstuff medicinal plants can act as preventative medicine, helping protect against oxidation, inflammation and helping to boost immunity as well as healing physical and psychological conditions. When used correctly plant medicine is safe, effective and can have powerful results. Generations ago plants were the only medicines people had (and this is still the case in 60% of the world!). Doctors or “curanderos” would grow plants for the medicines they prepared based on knowledge handed down for generations and which they then prescribed for their patients.
The Rythmia Scholarship Program began in 2019 with a personal endowment from Gerard Powell and currently provides 96 scholarships annually to economically underprivileged souls. Since inception, we have received over 500 applications monthly from truly deserving individuals yearning to awaken to their highest potential and share their inherent gifts with the world.
Today, there’s a lot of scientific research into medicinal plants going on around the world. Every day new science data helps verify century long traditional use, just as our ancestors said. And scientists are also telling us how the plants work – which chemical ingredients in the plant act on which body system, including different functions in the brain.
With your support the TFFSA Foundation will help to provide breakthrough therapies to underserved populations from around the globe because when we heal ourselves, we heal our families, communities and the planet itself.
