Increasingly, modern biomedicine despite its dazzling progress reveals its inability to meet the basic needs of the global population in health related issues.
The environmental damage , with the ensuing energy and social crisis as its background, have led health authorities in different countries to consider the opportunity to reassess traditional medicine and pharmacopoeia to incorporate their appropriate elements in the primary health care systems of the populations under their concern.
It is in 1982, during the creation of the SNPG (Popular and natural knowledge of Guadeloupe) at Marie-Galante, but after IMEPLAM in Mexico and CEMAT in Guatemala (1975/76), against the backdrop of the premises of the environmental crisis discovery and the international calls for the preservation of the biodiversity, that TRAMIL was created. It just goes to show that great ideas come along, certainly because the need for such initiatives was obvious!
