Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Quinlan, Marsha B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEUS; GOSSYPIUM BARBADENSE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LIPPIA; LIPPIA MICROMERA; PLECTRANTHUS; PLECTRANTHUS AMBOINICUS;

PLANT EXTRACT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOMINICA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGIOSPERMS; CULTURE; DOMINICA; ETHNOBOTANY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77949429771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17464269     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-4269-6-9     Document Type: Article

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