Traditional medicinal knowledge in Cuba

Abstract

For about a decade the Portuguese Tropical Research Institute has been investigating traditional medicinal knowledge in Latin American metropolises. In 2009 a survey was extracted from Havana, Cuba. Data sources were a sample of fifty interviews extracted from forty-seven households possessing front and backyards with medicinal species, which Cubans use to mitigate aches and pains, in two La Habana municipalities, Playa and Plaza de la Revolución, plus three extensive interviews with La Habana Vieja herb traders. The main objective was to recover ancient domestic prescriptions among urban gardeners and believers in plant therapy in order to create a database on ancestral medicinal practices able to help the less wealthy Latin American populations deal with health problems. © 2010 WIT Press.