Leaves Of Life - - - Botanicals

Kazembe Bediako

Shekhem Meter Unnerta · MPS, MSTOM

Kazembe Bediako is the founder and Director of Research and Product Development at Leaves of Life Botanicals, a plant-based herbal supplement company. He is the author of the Behutet Trilogy, The Tuat, and the four-volume herbal compendium Leaves of Life.

Leaves of Life Botanicals is a compilation of rediscovered herbal formulas, gathered through twenty years of travel, study and meticulous research in Guyana, Jamaica, China, Ghana, South Africa, India, and North and South America. That knowledge has been distilled into formulas for today's ailments.

Background

• Born in Georgetown, Guyana; immigrated to the United States as a child.
• BA in English Literature, Baruch College, City University of New York.
• Master of Professional Studies (MPS), The New School, New York.
• MSTOM in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, New York. Training in acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, massage, diet therapy, qigong meditation, cupping, gua sha and auricular acupuncture.
• Student of the I Jing and the Daoist classics, and of African cosmology and oracular systems under his spiritual teacher, Ra Un Nefer Amen I. Priest of the Ausar Auset Society.
• 30 years as a policy and budget analyst at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (retired 2018).
• Advanced degree in Aikido and advanced training in Tai Qi; teacher of Aikido, qigong, meditation and yoga; producer of the Nei Kung Qi Gong video series.

Books

• Behutet: The Warrior Within (2010)
• Leaves of Life, Volume 1: Medicinal Plants of Guyana (2011)
• Behutet: The Defeat of the Sebau (2012)
• Behutet: The Destruction of Man (2013)
• The Tuat: The Children of Light and the Magic Temple (2016)
• Leaves of Life, Volume 2: Single Herbs and Formulas (2020)
• Leaves of Life, Volume 3 (2024)
• Leaves of Life, Volume 4: Nutritional Secrets (2026)

Selected lectures

• Nei Kung Qi Gong: Power Building Exercises (2003)
• Traditional Chinese Medicine's Guide to Female Health (2011)
• Holistic Herbal Approach to Common Ailments (2011)
• Traditional Chinese Medicine's Guide to Male Health (2012)
• Community Acupuncture in an Urban Black Community Setting (2012)
• Healing Meditation for Black Men (2012)
• The Effects of Qi Gong, Meditation and Vegan Diet on Managing Hypertension (2012)
• Writing Fiction: Write Your Book and Publish and Market It (2014)

Community

Coordinator of the Black Men's Holistic Health Expo (2011–2013) and the Sofik Aabut Black Writers Conference (2014); editor of the conference monographs (2017, 2020).