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Caribbean Herbalism: Traditional Wisdom and Modern Herbal Healing
From the forest to the pharmacy, the bush to the medicine bottle, explore how plants and traditional practices from the Caribbean have traveled around the world to help heal people of all cultures.
For millennia, people have utilized plants as foods, medicines, hallucinogens, clothing, shelter, perfumes, dyes, and even poisons. In the Caribbean, medicinal and practical use of plants began with its first inhabitants, the Amerindians. New plants and knowledge were introduced through both triangular trade with Asia, Africa, and Europe and the enslavement of Africans and Indians from Southeast Asia, culminating in the modern-day system of Caribbean herbalism.
Caribbean Herbalism tells the rich and complex stories of Caribbean people and the plants that have sustained them. Inside you’ll
A practical guide to a meaningful selection of herbs and their traditional uses Botanical field notes and drawings that tell the stories of the Indigenous, African, East Indian, and European plants that inhabit the region Culturally important traditions, remedies, and recipes Interviews with Caribbean people And so much more
This book offers practical tools you need to build a relationship with plants and make common Caribbean herbal remedies like bush teas, bush baths, herbal wines, infused alcohols and oils, and more!
For millennia, people have utilized plants as foods, medicines, hallucinogens, clothing, shelter, perfumes, dyes, and even poisons. In the Caribbean, medicinal and practical use of plants began with its first inhabitants, the Amerindians. New plants and knowledge were introduced through both triangular trade with Asia, Africa, and Europe and the enslavement of Africans and Indians from Southeast Asia, culminating in the modern-day system of Caribbean herbalism.
Caribbean Herbalism tells the rich and complex stories of Caribbean people and the plants that have sustained them. Inside you’ll
A practical guide to a meaningful selection of herbs and their traditional uses Botanical field notes and drawings that tell the stories of the Indigenous, African, East Indian, and European plants that inhabit the region Culturally important traditions, remedies, and recipes Interviews with Caribbean people And so much more
This book offers practical tools you need to build a relationship with plants and make common Caribbean herbal remedies like bush teas, bush baths, herbal wines, infused alcohols and oils, and more!
160 pages, Paperback
Published June 17, 2025
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September 14, 2026
Fraser created this book with a Trinidadian perspective with "research Jamaica, Montserrat, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Saint Lucia, and Barbados." She says readers should come into this book with a curious mind, a way to take notes, and understand that this work is a short distillation of her own research and experiences. Fraser's desires for readers is that they will be curious to do more research, ask questions and build their own relationship with herbalism. I enjoyed this book. The sketches of the plants were so nice to look at. With each of the plants mentioned, Fraser also includes a personal vignette which I highly highly enjoyed. Fraser talks about location of plants, harvesting them, and making them into medicine. I highly enjoyed and will come back to the book.
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