"We actually domesticated an important wild plant," says Melendez. "We created a new crop for semi-arid zones and new opportunities for the farmers to earn a decent income from knowledge they inherited from their ancestors. When fields of damiana are cultivated in Baja California, the incentive to gather the wild plant will diminish, and the natural damiana will not be driven to extinction," she concludes.
梅倫德高興地說，「我們已經成功地馴化了這種重要的野生植物，培育了能在半乾旱地區種植的新品種大迷亞納；也就是說，將來這些當地的農民可以利用傳承於祖先的草藥常識增加可觀的收入，而沙漠中的原生大迷亞納也終將逃過一劫，不致絕種。」