An African villager rushed into the clinic with her badly burned child, a little boy named Ndronal. The doctor did what he could, then asked the traditional healer for help. She examined him and then left to collect a plant from the forest. Soon she returned with a length of liana, a climbing plant. She blew into one end, forcing liquid out from the other. As it coated the child's burns, his crying gradually stopped. Given daily treatments in this way, Ndronal's burns were completely healed a month later --- a victory for him and for the healing powers of one of nature's medicines.