Introduction

A common participant during the first TRAMIL meeting in 1984, the UAG has since been fully involved in the development of the francophone section of the TRAMIL network. In addition, the UAG organized the 6th scientific workshop in Basse Terre in 1992 and co-published in 1995 a key work, "Towards a Caribbean Pharmacopoeia."

Since 2002, the support of the UAG has been reaffirmed by the signing of an agreement that permitted, among other things, to welcome to Dr. Lionel Robineau, the scientific coordinator of the applied research program and to incorporate him to the laboratory of Plant Biology, then in charge of Professor Jacques Portecop.

It was only logical that the Joint Service Documentation at UAG took the initiative to provide Caribbean students and researchers, whatever their working language, the results of the research carried out by researchers from around the Caribbean.

This interactive database is a goldmine of information on Caribbean cultural habits in primary health care with medicinal plants. Let's bet that our students will develop the desire to deepen our knowledge of regional ethnopharmacology.

Pascal SAFFACHE
President of the University of Antilles and Guyana