Haitian women in New York City use global food plants for women's health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the availability of mainstream biomedical healthcare in New York City (NYC), community-based ethnomedicine practices remain a low-cost, culturally relevant treatment for many immigrants. Previous urban ethnobotany research in NYC has established that several Caribbean communities continue using medicinal plants for women's health after immigration. This study sought to address to what extent: (1) NYC Haitian women continue using medicinal plants for women's health after migration; (2) their plants and the conditions treated were similar to those identified in an earlier survey with NYC immigrants from the Dominican Republic.

Methods

Through an ethnobotanical survey, 100 Haitian women living in NYC and born in Haiti were interviewed about their knowledge of

SUBMITTER: Vardeman ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10785501 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature