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This book contains valuable information on sixty-five local plants, each of which is described and given a botanical name. Their medicinal uses include arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure, headaches, strokes, impotence, sterility, ulcers and skin infections.
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Dr Kumar Mahabir received his BA and M.Phil. degrees in English from The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. He did his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Florida. As a doctoral student, he won a Florida Caribbean Institute Award, an A. Curtis Wilgus Fellowship, and an Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship. He is the author of six books including two (2) national bestsellers: (1) Caribbean East Indian Recipes and, (2) Medicinal and Edible Plants used by East Indians of Trinidad and Tobago. He has also published several articles in scholarly journals including the New West Indian Guide, Caribbean Studies, Florida Journal of Anthropology, and the Toronto South Asian Review.
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He is the President, of the Association of Caribbean Anthropologists (ACA), Dr Mahabir lectures at COSTAATT (Community College), and the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is the CEO of the company, Chakra Publishing House. For several years, he has been involved in research on Indian Culture in the Caribbean. He did research on Indians in Trinidad, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada.
... it is an outstanding work in several ways – as a pioneering work in this aspect of life of Indians ... -- Sasenarine Persad, Indo-Caribbean World, December 1991
... it is multi-purpose in scope as it contains important botanical, medicinal, religious and dietary aspects of Indo-Trinidadian culture. -- Dr Bal Ramdial, Sunday Guardian, June 23, 1991
... this 165-page compilation is interesting and informative ... -- Rachel Thurab, Trinidad Guardian, May 21, 1991
... it is multi-purpose in scope as it contains important botanical, medicinal, religious and dietary aspects of Indo-Trinidadian culture. -- Dr Bal Ramdial, Sunday Guardian, June 23, 1991
... this 165-page compilation is interesting and informative ... -- Rachel Thurab, Trinidad Guardian, May 21, 1991
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- PublisherChakra Publishing House
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 9768001739
- ISBN 13 9789768001733
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number3
- Number of pages166
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