Messages from the Gods: A Guide to the Useful Plants of Belize

Table of Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction and Background; The Setting; Origins of the Belize Ethnobotany Project; Project Objectives; Traditional Healing in Belize; Methodology; Chapter 1 Figures; Chapter 2: Traditional Healers, Bushmasters and their Sacred Realm; The Discovery of Therapeutic Plants; Generalist and Specialist Healers in Belize; Culture Bound Syndrome (Culturally Specific Illness) in Belize; Preparation of Plant Medicines; The Vanishing Medicine Chest; Profile of a Traditional Healer's Practice: Don Eligio Panti; Foods as Therapies; Poisons that Heal; Psychoactive Species; Solving a Mystery- Capoche; Chapter 2 Figures; Chapter 3: Traditional Healers, Bushmasters and their Backgrounds; Juana and Antonio Cuc; Barbara Fernandez; Thomas Green; Winston Harris; Don Eligio Panti; Andrew Ramcharan; Percival Hezekiah Reynolds; Hortense Robinson; Leopoldo Romero; Beatrice Waight; Juana Xix; In Their Own Words; Thomas Green; Winston Harris; Don Eligio Panti; Percival Reynolds; Hortense Robinson; Leopoldo Romero; Beatrice Waight; The Unbroken Chain; Chapter 3 Figures; Chapter 4: Plants of Belize and their Uses in Ancient and Contemporary Times: An Ethnobotanical Compendium; Non-Flowering Plants; Ferns, Fern Allies; Gymnosperms; Figures- Fern and Fern Allies, Gymnosperms; Flowering Plants; Monocotyledons; Figures- Monocotyledons; Dicotyledons; Figures- Dicotyledons; Bibliography

Dr. Mike Balick is the Vice President for Botanical Science, Director, and Philecology Curator at the Institute of Economic Botany, at the New York Botanical Garden.