Dear friend @artemislives Greetings dear friend, I would like to tell you a little, from our perspective, what happens in our country.
Like each country, our ancestors (in Venezuela) were lovers of nature, care for plants, and knew a lot about the use in the field of health of medicinal plants, however with the rise of medicinal products processed by large international pharmaceutical companies, all this ancestral knowledge was almost lost in time and space.
Although nobody likes to live in crisis or going through economic needs, I feel that this situation has allowed us to investigate again things of the wisdom of our grandparents, and we are going back to the roots of knowledge in the natural field... So, there is always something good to learn, and good things from each experience.
It is very possible that because of the need we continue learning from our natural culture, this would be fascinating and would prepare us for the future, when things improve.
The use of traditional - FREE - remedies an plants is even ore important in a country like Venezuela, where people no longer have money for medicines. I'm fairly sure amla grows easily and will in your climate, and if you looked hard enough you would find it locally.