Traditional Martinican pharmacopoeia

The 2009 law on traditional medicine in the Overseas Territories recommends an inventory of traditional medicines in the Caribbean. In this book, Emmanuel Nossin proposes to fuel and enrich the debate around the Martinican ethnopharmacopoeia. It traces the history of traditional medicine in the West Indies and explains how and why this pharmacopoeia was formed. Indeed, this one was strongly influenced by the various cultures, resulting from immigration. This book is a plea, which shows that traditional medicine and modern medicine are compatible and complementary.

In Martinique, these two systems coexist while ignoring each other. Conversely, the author preaches an intelligent cohabitation, where each system would enrich the other. In fact, it offers solutions to achieve this. Moreover, he is one of the first to draw up such an inventory by proposing an estimate of its content. And since there is not yet an official inventory of these practices, this information is essential. Therefore this book will interest not only professionals, but also all Martinicans concerned about their cultural heritage.