caa a22 4500 477045995 CHVBK 20180405111330.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF02862114 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF02862114 Ethnobotany of the garífuna of Eastern Nicaragua [Elektronische Daten] [Felix Coe, Gregory Anderson] La etnobotánica de los Garífuna de Nicaragua oriental We report the diversity of plants used by the Garifuna focusing on medicinals. Garifuna plants documented in this study are distributed among 75 families, 193 genera, and 254 species. Included are 229 medicinals, 93 food plants, and 94 species for other uses. Garifuna medicinals treat more than 30 human ailments and most are native (74%) to eastern Nicaragua. About 70% of the medicinals have some bioactive principle, most are herbs (37%) or trees (34%), and leaves are the most frequently utilized plant part. Most are prepared as decoctions and are administered orally. Most food plants are domesticates, and only 14 of 51 domesticated food species are native to the NW tropics with only three to Mesoamerica. Garifuna culture is changing rapidly as a result of contact with immigrating mestizos from central Nicaragua. This study provides a written record of folk medicine and ethnobotany for the people of eastern Nicaragua. The New York Botanical Garden, 1996 ethnobotany nationallicence medicinal plants nationallicence Garífuna nationallicence eastern Nicaragua nationallicence Coe Felix Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Box U-43, 06269-3043, Storrs, CT aut Anderson Gregory Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Box U-43, 06269-3043, Storrs, CT aut Economic Botany Springer-Verlag 50/1(1996-01-01), 71-107 0013-0001 50:1<71 1996 50 12231 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02862114 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02862114 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Coe Felix Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Box U-43, 06269-3043, Storrs, CT aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Anderson Gregory Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Box U-43, 06269-3043, Storrs, CT aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Economic Botany Springer-Verlag 50/1(1996-01-01), 71-107 0013-0001 50:1<71 1996 50 12231 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer