Ethnobotany

Some ethnobotanical links

7 June 1999
This set came about because of a conversation with John Knox about an alumna who is going to be working with a curandero in Panama. Some of the links are specific to Panama, others more general: http://www.rain-tree.com/plants.htm tropical plant database

http://www.rain-tree.com/references.htm (400+ references)

http://www.herbalgram.org/catalog/reviews/centam/arvigo.html (Wade Davis review of Sastun, from http://www.herbalgram.org/directory.html (American Botanical Council site)

 AUTHOR       Arvigo, Rosita.
 TITLE        Sastun : my apprenticeship with a Maya healer / Rosita
              Arvigo with Nadine Epstein and Marilyn Yaquinto.
 PUBLISHER    San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, c1994.
 SUBJECT      Mayas -- Ethnobotany.
              Mayas -- Medicine.
              Traditional medicine -- Belize -- Cayo District.
              Ethnobotany -- Belize -- Cayo District.
              Healers -- Belize -- Cayo District.
              Medicinal plants -- Belize -- Cayo District.
 Leyburn Library        F1435.3.E74 A79 1994

http://www1.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/gmthesis.html (full text of Utilization of Medicinal Plant Species in the Zapotec Community of Yatzachi el Bajo, Oaxaca, Mexico. [Gina Marie McAndrews, Iowa State MS 1995]

http://www.HispanicHerbs.com/ California School of Traditional Hispanic Herbalism

ref from USDA bibliography:

Ethnobotanical inventory of medicinal plants used by the Guaymi indians in western Panama. II. Joly, L.G.; Guerra, S.; Septimo, R.; Solis, P.N.; Correa A, M.D.; Gupta, M.P.; Levy, S.; Sandberg, F.; Perera, P. Limerick : Elsevier Scientific Publishers; 1990 Feb. Journal of ethno-pharmacology v. 28 (2): p. 191-206; 1990 Feb. Includes references.

and a Panamanian contact, as of 1997 anyway: Prof. Mahabir P. Gupta Coordinador Internacional, Quimica Fina Farmaceutica CYTED Universidad de Panama, Apartado 10767 Panama REPUBLICA DE PANAMA Phone: +507 269 76 54 FAX:. +507 264 07 89 e-mail: gupta@pananet.com or mgupta@ancon.up.ac.pa

(National Cancer Institute has a program via U. Panama) See CIFLOR and their publications and Farmacia department page

and there's this book:
Morton, J. F. 1981. Atlas of Medicinal Plants of Middle America. Illinois: Charles C. Thomas