For more than 50 years a Bourda Market bush seller and her family have provided Guyanese with local plants including barks and roots and herbs for use as natural remedies for aches and pains.
Every day Sharmila Mohamed, known to many as the “Indian Bush Lady”, spends 12 hours at the busy market front selling herbal remedies for maladies ranging from the common cold to diabetes. On any given day she attends