I'm travelling 8 months through California (sept.-november), Chile (Aysen Region) (november-january) and Malaysia (february-april) to learn about uses for wild plants.
In France, I used to teach wild local plant uses and theoretical and practical botany to adults in a private school (5 years). I also spent 3 months in Togo studying traditional medical practices. I now wish to extend my projects, in part to understand the feeding and healing patterns of traditional societies (fixed or nomadic).
Please let me know if you are interested in these ideas. I'm always glad to meet people to share with.
I am not an expert ethnobotanist, but I would like to suggest your contacting Dr. Guillermo Schmeda-Hirschmann at the University of Talca, 250 km south of Santiago, Chile , who is very knowledgeable about Mapuche (south-central Chile) and ayoreo (Paraguayan Chaco) healing practices and their chemical correlates.
Hi Benoit
Glad to know about your interest in medicinal plants of Malaysia. I would be very happy to share knowledge about wild species of medicinal plants. You can contact me whenever you visit Malaysia. Hopefully we can arrange for some meetings and also plan some medicinal plant surveys in the area.
Regards
Hi Alok,
thank you for your message, I will write you before coming to Malaysia ! I will be glad to meet and share about plants.
Regards
Lucie
@Benoit,
If you want to disseminate the ethno-botanical knowledge, you can arrange group meeting with the people concerned. But if you want to learn about the uses of various wild plant species, a survey can be conducted in the area of your research. A questionnaire can be prepared to interview the respondents. A field visits along with the local people are also helpful to learn about the uses of wild plant species.
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