Haitian plant medicine

Haitian herbalism — rimèd fèy, the medicine of leaves — is one of the deepest and least-documented plant traditions in the Americas. It is carried in the lakou, the family compound, and passed by mouth: which leaf for a fever, which bark for the blood, which bath to lift a heaviness that is not only of the body. Living Algorithm keeps that knowledge as a working archive rather than a museum — each plant with its Kreyòl name first, its preparation, and its cautions.

The Caribbean pharmacopeia is real and corroborated: the TRAMIL network has documented traditional Caribbean plant use for decades, and a wider body of ethnobotanical references stands behind it. Where our records draw on those sources we say so; where a plant carries a safety concern, the caution leads. Knowledge here is returned — to the diaspora that carried it across water, and to anyone willing to learn a leaf by its right name.

This is one of two shores. The same care runs through the Adriatic & Balkan plant medicine of The Crossing — two shores, one root. Start with the plants below, or read the Journal.