Samosisimo: I am glad you have found the article useful. I am the grandson of a traditional healer who never took aprentices & the craft died with her. Ethnobotany has always been an interst of my as a way of honoring her memory. 08/29/2009

JHMcCormack: I didn't see your reply until recently. In my research so far on San Salvador Island most of the knowledge appears to have been learned by trial and error, though in two instances people were led to a certain plant in dreams. Finding the conceptual and spiritual origins of their medicine has been challenging. Often the blends of plants must be in odd numbers - curious about the origin of this. 09/11/2009