Traditional Medicine in the Garifuna Community of Orinoco

Abstract

In the community of Orinoco, municipality of Laguna de Perlas, RAAS, there is an initiative to rescue and integrate traditional medicine into the health model. This research systematizes this ancestral practice, with the objective of strengthening this important effort that intends to enrich the current health model in the region, with the ancestral knowledge of the Garifuna population of Orinoco.