Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome. | Quinlan Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2010 6 9 http content 6 1 9 JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE RESEARCH Open Access Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome Marsha B Quinlan Abstract Background Fright is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for an illness or ethnomedical syndrome of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric idiom exists in the French Antilles as sésisma. Fright is distinct from susto among Hispanics though both develop in the wake of traumatic events. West Indian ethnophysiology ethnoanatomy theorizes that an overload of stressful emotions fear panic anguish or worry causes a cold humoral state in which blood coagulates causing prolonged distress and increased risks of other humorally cold illnesses. Methods Qualitative data on local explanatory models and treatment of fright were collected using participantobservation informal key informant interviews and a village health survey. Ethnobotanical and epidemiological data come from freelist or free-list tasks analyzed for salience with nearly all adults N 112 of an eastern village in Dominica and a village survey on medicinal plant recognition and use N 106 . Results Along with prayer and exercise three herbs are salient fright treatments Gossypium barbadense L. Lippia micromera Schauer and Plectranthus Coleus amboinicus Loureiro Sprengel. The survey indicated that 27 of village adults had medicated themselves for fright. Logistic regression of fright suffering onto demographic variables of age education gender parental status and wealth measured in consumer goods found age to be the only significant predictor of having had fright. The probability of having and medicating for fright thus increases with every year. Conclusions While sufferers are often uncomfortable recalling personal fright experiences reporting use of medicinal plants is less problematic. Inquiry on fright medical ethnobotany or .
