And any pharmacologists, Are people who have advanced degrees in pharmacology here in the room
这里有专攻药理学的吗
Well, you're gonna just have to take my word for it then
那你们相信我就是了
That there is a substance in nopales
仙人掌中有一种物质
That is absolutely similar to something which is found in Metformin or Glucophage
很类似于格华止中的成分
Does anybody know what that is?
谁知道格华止是什么吗
That is a medication for diabetes
这是一种糖尿病药物
It is probably the most common medication for diabetes in this country
也许是美国最常用的糖尿病用药了
So what you have here is a tradition
可见这里的传统中
of not only eating healthy foods, but of having your pharmacy sitting right in front of your house
吃的不仅是健康食物,还是药物,药物就在家门口
And these are one of the main sources of greens for the Tarahumara
这就是塔拉乌马拉人的主要青菜来源
And they go out and they pick these nopales and they eat them and they grow them and they're eating their antidiabetic medicine
他们自己种植,采摘食用这些仙人掌,而这同时也是抗糖尿病药剂
Now, I met Taurino
这个人叫Taurino
He's half Tarahumara and half
他有一半塔拉乌马拉血统
He calls himself mestizo or mixed
他称自己是混血儿mestizo
And he showed me his garden which was another jumble of stuff
他带我参观了他的菜园,也是什么都有
But then he started to show me all these things in his garden that he knew to lower blood sugar.
他告诉我哪些他种的菜,他知道是降低血糖的
Okay, things that he was producing like cayenne and things like jicama and cinnamon and cilantro and so on
包括辣椒,凉薯,肉桂,香菜
and just in case you don't Taurino
没人告诉他,他就知道
Well, a bunch of researchers went down there from the University of Mexico and study the plants down there
一些来自墨西哥大学的研究者去过那里,他们研究了那里的植物
And this is an article that was published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology
这是发表于民族药理学杂志的一篇论文
And they found 306 species of plants growing in that region that lower blood sugar
他们发现当地有306种能降低血糖的植物