Author: Suzanne NielsenPublisher:
ISBN: 9789990407594
Category : Ethnobotany
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Folk remedies on a Caribbean island
Author: Suzanne NielsenPublisher:
ISBN: 9789990407594
Category : Ethnobotany
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Afro-Caribbean Folk Medicine
Author: Michel S. LaguerrePublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Healing Herbs Of The Island
Author: Martin R GabrielPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Learn the secrets to creating amazing herbal remedies
Bush Medicine of the Bahamas
Author: Jeffrey Holt McCormackPublisher:
ISBN: 9780983767305
Category : Medicinal plants
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Caribbean Wild Plants and Their Uses
Author: P. Narodny HonychurchPublisher: MacMillan Education, Limited
ISBN: 9780333409114
Category : Herbs
Languages : nl
Pages : 166
Book Description
Traditional Medicinal Plants of St. Croix, St. Thomas and St. John
Author: Toni ThomasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780962890963
Category : Medicinal plants
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Popular Medicinal Plants in Portland and Kingston, Jamaica
Author: Ina VandebroekPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030489272
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book highlights the results from over a year of ethnobotanical research in a rural and an urban community in Jamaica, where we interviewed more than 100 people who use medicinal plants for healthcare. The goal of this research was to better understand patterns of medicinal plant knowledge, and to find out which plants are used in consensus by local people for a variety of illnesses. For this book, we selected 25 popular medicinal plant species mentioned during fieldwork. Through individual interviews, we were able to rank plants according to their frequency of mention, and categorized the medicinal uses for each species as “major” (mentioned by more than 20% of people in a community) or “minor” (mentioned by more than 5%, but less than 20% of people). Botanical identification of plant specimens collected in the wild allowed for cross-linking of common and scientific plant names. To supplement field research, we undertook a comprehensive search and review of the ethnobotanical and biomedical literature. Our book summarizes all this information in detail under specific sub-headings.
Medicinal Plants of Barbados for the Treatment of Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases
Author: Damian H. CohallPublisher: University of West Indies Press
ISBN: 9789766404994
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Barbados has a strong base in the practice of folklore botanical medicines. Consistent with the rest of the Caribbean, the practice is often criticized due to the lack of efficacy and safety testing of the plants. Cohall identifies common medicinal plants used historically and currently in Barbados for the treatment of common communicable and non-communicable diseases and describes the historical to current context of communicable and non-communicable diseases in Barbados. He also outlines the historical and current context of the use of medicinal plants, including factors influencing their use by Barbadians.The medicinal plants in the book were reviewed previously and grouped on their practice to treat communicable and noncommunicable diseases and also botanical classification. The identified phytochemicals from the plants were compared to established drug compounds approved for the conventional treatment of illnesses and also established phytochemicals. Medicinal Plants of Barbados will be of interest to Barbadians and other Caribbean nationals who use herbal remedies and are keen to validate their applications; it will also appeal to academics who wish to investigate these herbal remedies as sources of new drug compounds and clinicians who wish to be guided about possible drug?herb interactions.
Healing Logics
Author: Erika BradyPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0874214548
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Scholars in folklore and anthropology are more directly involved in various aspects of medicine—such as medical education, clinical pastoral care, and negotiation of transcultural issues—than ever before. Old models of investigation that artificially isolated "folk medicine," "complementary and alternative medicine," and "biomedicine" as mutually exclusive have proven too limited in exploring the real-life complexities of health belief systems as they observably exist and are applied by contemporary Americans. Recent research strongly suggests that individuals construct their health belief systmes from diverse sources of authority, including community and ethnic tradition, education, spiritual beliefs, personal experience, the influence of popular media, and perception of the goals and means of formal medicine. Healing Logics explores the diversity of these belief systems and how they interact—in competing, conflicting, and sometimes remarkably congruent ways. This book contains essays by leading scholars in the field and a comprehensive bibliography of folklore and medicine.
LMH Official Dictionary of - Caribbean Herbs and Medicinal Plants and Their Uses
Author: L. Mike HenryPublisher:
ISBN: 9789768184320
Category : Herbs
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Caribbean is host to one of the most diverse areas of the whole world - both culturally and ecologically. This book takes a look at some of the herbs and medicinal plants found in the Caribbean, a place awash with ancient herbal remedies for a number of common ailments. With advice on how to use them wisely, moderately and regularly, it also explores some of the myths and legends associated with these herbs and plants.