Nomad RSI - Therapeutic diversity and the environment

Nicolas Savajol, Vanny Tuoun and Sam John (2011), Phnom Penh: Nomad RSI, 116p.
Language: English.

Ever since the first research in 1997 on the use of anti-malarial medicinal plants in the Cambodian province of Mondulkiri, Nomad RSI has continuously investigated and documented the knowledge of local healers. This book presents some of this valuable information collected over a decade, by introducing the healers, their practices and medicinal plants. It is not an exhaustive report of the therapeutic environment of the Bunong people but an introduction to the range of existing practices in Mondulkiri and to the vernacular modes of knowledge transmission. Detailed accounts on personal itineraries and stories that narrates the "life" of the plants and that of spirits are also provided. The contemporary features of traditional medicine and therapeutic knowledge in the region are explained in a manner accessible to all. Portraits of healers, medicinal plants monographs and case studies of therapeutic practices compose this richly illustrated book. While the lay reader will discover a fascinating world, the botanist and the anthropologist will find in this volume a wealth of information relevant for the purposes of their research.

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