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The aim of this book is to present a picture of past and present Polynesian medicinal plants. Although several books have been published on herbal medicine in Polynesia, these are either limited in geographic scope (mostly to Hawai'i) or are unscientific in basis. Restricting the study of herbal medicine to a single Polynesian island or archipelago is a disadvantage because the early accounts of medicinal practices are so sketchy. A more compr...

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Two systems of health care exist side by side in Samoa--Samoan medicine and Western medicine. Western medicine is centered in three hospitals--Moto'otua Hospital near Apia, Tuasivi Hospital on Savai'i, and the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in American Samoa. There are also a series of rural clinics, especially on Savai'i, that are staffed by district nurses. The doctors (foma'i) at the Western Samoan hospitals have either a Diploma...

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Samoans have exploited the forests for centuries, but always in an environmentally sound way.... But because of changes in culture and values, the species of the rainforest have slowly been forgotten, as children no longer venture into the forest with their fathers to learn the names and uses of the trees. Samoans have been the keepers of this knowledge and these plants for close to three millennia, but today the trees and the people have beco...

Samoans have learned by centuries of experience which trees provide the best timber, which plants are edible, which make the best cordage, and which can be used as medicine.... [They] have been the keepers of this knowledge and these plants for close to three millennia, but s we begin the new millennium, traditional lore is unfortunately no longer being passed on to the younger generation. This loss of traditional plant lore and traditional pl...