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Higgs specialized in the culture of the Bahamas, including herbal medicine and cooking. She self-published four books: Flowers of Nassau , Bahamian Cook Book: Recipes by Ladies of Nassau , which documents Higgs' forty-five years of research on Bahamian cuisine shared by women in Nassau ; Bush Medicine in the Bahamas , a collection about herbal ...
Bush medicine comprises traditional medicines used by Indigenous Australians, being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Indigenous people have been using various components of native Australian flora and some fauna as medicine for thousands of years, and a minority turn to healers in their communities for medications aimed at providing physical and spiritual healing.
Baccharis halimifolia is a North American species of shrubs in the family Asteraceae.It is native to Nova Scotia, the eastern and southern United States (from Massachusetts south to Florida and west to Texas and Oklahoma), [2] eastern Mexico (Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Quintana Roo), [3] the Bahamas, [4] and Cuba.
The leaves also contain a range of hydroxybenzoic acids: gallic acid and its ethyl ester, gentisic acid, anthranilic acid, protocatechuic acid, and ellagic acid (alizarine yellow). A C20 homolog of vernolic acid named alchornoic acid can be found in the seed oil.
Tecoma stans is a species of flowering perennial shrub in the trumpet vine family, Bignoniaceae, that is native to the Americas.Common names include yellow trumpetbush, [3] yellow bells, [3] yellow elder, [3] ginger Thomas. [4]
Guaiacum sanctum, commonly known as holywood, lignum vitae [4] or holywood lignum-vitae, is a species of flowering plant in the creosote bush family, Zygophyllaceae.It is native to the Neotropical realm, from Mexico through Central America, Florida in the United States, the Caribbean, and northern South America. [5]
McKay was a knowledgeable practitioner of bush medicine. He specialized in herbal remedies, especially the "mystical cerasee vine" (Bitter leaves or Momordica charantia), which he collected in Nassau. [24] "I grew up as a roots person, someone knowing about the bush and the herbs and the spiritual realm. It was inbred into all of us.
Justicia spicigera (Mexican honeysuckle, firecracker bush, moyotle, moyotli, mohintli, muicle, trompetilla, yaxan, [2] or ych-kaan in Mayan) is an evergreen shrub with tubular orange flowers. [3] The species is native to the Bahamas , Belize , Colombia , Costa Rica , El Salvador , Guatemala , Hispaniola (the Dominican Republic and Haiti ...