Reviewing Pandemic Preventive Andean Traditional Medicine KNowledge from a Consilient Transdisciplinary Methodology

The importance of more than 53,000 medicinal plant (MP) species—mostly vascular—for human health is globally recognized (FAO, 2022), particularly in the context of global pandemics (Alston et al., 2025). However, critical gaps persist in their conservation, the safeguarding of which is primarily attributed to Indigenous Knowledge (Alum, 2024). It is well documented that Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) are deeply rooted in place and passed down through generations, often exhibiting a non-local or translocal dimension, extending beyond immediate geographical boundaries. This non-locality manifests in the circulation of knowledge through oral traditions, migration patterns, trade networks, and shared cultural practices (Ijatuyi et al., 2025). While IKS is inherently tied to specific ecosystems, ancient cultures, and territories, its principles and applications can be adapted and applied in diverse contexts, as the Tukuypaq System (TS) case (Peredo Albornoz et al., 2024). From authors embodied experience TS is a healing system build it on 200 years wisekeep experience from the author C.P. on health and vegetalist management knowledge and his 40 years grounded experience as Quechua traditional medicine man on spiritual, mental and physical fields. In this time range, C.P. safeguards, share, teach and applies the principles of our Andean Cosmovision through many documents. This work focus on reviewing -by consilient transdisciplinary techniques: Network Medicine Analysis (Barabási et al., 2010) and Two-Eyed Seing (Illes et al, 2025; Kutz et al, 2019)- the book of C.P. "Memory of Traditional Andean-Amazonian Medicine" (2023) which contains over 382 plant species, approx. 1136 medicinal recipes for 235 conditions (between illness and health improving) to explore potentialities of this knowledge as anticipatory system (Rosen, 2012) for emerging pathogens with potential future pandemic (Ukoaka, 2024).