A Micronesian Ethnobotanical Herbarium

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Virtual Herbarium by Phylla and Latin binomial

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Healing plant presentations

Healing Uses

Babies

Chuukese baby leg strengthening
Pingalapese breast enlargement for milk production
Pohnpeian baby hiccup fear reducer
Pohnpeian umbilical cord infection treatment

Digestive

Diarhea

Cocos nucifera
Phymatosorus scolopendria

Ears

Tehn karamahd

Eyes

Pink eye

Clerodendrum inerme
Scaevola taccada

Fever

Citrus aurantifolia
Clerodendrum inerme

Flu

Clerodendrum inerme

Hair

Mwoakillese hair treatment
Vittaria [elongata?]

Headache

Citrus aurantifolia
Ocimum sanctum

Menstrual

Pohnpeian steam bath for women

Pregnancy and Delivery

Chuukese Chúúnúket cure
Pohnpei baby protection
Pohnpei labor easer
Pohnpei ninth month plant
Pohnpei womb cleaner

Respiratory

Asthma

Morinda citrifolia

Coughing

Citrus aurantifolia
Premna obtusifolia

Skin

Ipomoea littoralis: Boils
Clerodendrum inerme: Skin rash

Burns

Merremia peltata

Cuts

Chuuk: Flying fish cuts
Cocos nucifera
Non-knife cuts
Pohnpei: Piper Methysticum

Rashes

Tehn karamahd

Other

Chuukese love magic with Ocimum sanctum

Material Culture

Habitation

Uses of Camnosperma brevipetiolata Shape holding shrubs: Clerodendrum inerme

Stories

Uses of Camnosperma brevipetiolata
1973 San Francisco Examiner Sakau article
Ixora coccinea

Student work

Raw and unsorted

Benfita Joseph: Nior
Dorothy En: La'lau
Dorothy En: Piy
Sepe (Kilafwakun) Une: Guava

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