Notes on Jamaican Plants
Author : Alexander Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 1780
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Author : Alexander Roberts
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 1780
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Author : S. Moore
Publisher :
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 42,76 MB
Release : 1927
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Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
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Page : 582 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Botany
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Author : Martha Warren Beckwith
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Botany, Medical
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Author : William Fawcett
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,42 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Botany
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Author : Monica F. Warner
Publisher : MacMillan Caribbean
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Botany, Medical
ISBN : 9781405065665
This volume provides a well illustrated, easily read, and no-nonsense guide to Jamaican wild herbs and their several medicinal and related uses. The widespread cultural practice of using a multitude of healing, culinary, and cosmetic herbs is distilled to a core of about 70 species.
Author : Ina Vandebroek
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2020-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030489272
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.
Author : William Fawcett
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781290652988
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Michael B. Thomas
Publisher : Centre for International Ethnomedicinal
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,62 MB
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780972959407
Jamaica has a high degree of biological and cultural diversity. Roughly, 3000 species of plants grow on the island, with 25 percent of them being found nowhere else on Earth. The Maroons of Jamaica represent one of the most important cultural groups. The history of the Maroons of Jamaica has African roots and begins in the year 1690, when a small number of slaves that had been brought from the Komoranti nation in Africa (the Akan region of West Africa or present day Ghana) fled from the hardships of plantation life and migrated to the mountains. Here they found freedom and a new autonomous way of life. Having established themselves in small communities, these forest freemen and women became known simply as Maroons, a title taken from the Spanish word cimaron, meaning wild or unruly.Today, two distinct Maroon groups persist in Jamaica, namely the Winward (eastern) and Leeward Maroons (western). Although, they have survived more than three centuries of colonization, today they continue to face new challenges - that of cultural erosion and integration into Jamaican society. Despite rapid change, a result of the exposure to non-Maroon society, Maroon communities have maintained many aspects of their traditional practices especially the use of local and introduced plants as medicines. Although, there has been no comprehensive study of Maroon ethnobotany, it is widely recognized that they possess a well developed traditional knowledge of the uses of Jamaica?s flora. This study presents some of this knowledge, and includes the common medicinal plants utilized by the Winward Maroons of Portland. This publication represents only a small fraction of the plants the Maroons use. It is hoped that this research can serve as an initial baseline for further documentation and Maroon cultural preservation.
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Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Endemic plants
ISBN : 9789766108816