Rodriguez has been drinking a homemade concoction made out of guasimo, or bay cedar, for the last month in hopes of fighting his HIV. Venezuela is suffering from a lack of life-saving drugs, including anti-retroviral medication used to keep HIV from turning into full-blown AIDS.
When Jesus Eduardo Rodriguez could no longer find his life-saving HIV medicine in Venezuela, a country where everything from chicken to aspirin is in short supply, he turned to Google about a month ago looking for hope.
What he found were stories about a Brazilian doctor using a plant called bay cedar, or guasimo, to treat his HIV-positive patients.
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