Editorial
Increasingly, modern biomedicine despite its dazzling progress reveals its inability to meet the basic needs of the global population in health related issues.
TRAMIL program
TRAMIL is and investigation project applied to the popular traditional medicine of Haiti, Dominican Republic and of other Caribbean countries. It was born out of a common effort from enda-caribbean, the Laboratory of the Natural Substances of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Port-au-Prince, the Federation of Rural Associations of Zambrana-Chacuey, Dominican Republic, and the clinic SOE of Thomonde, in the Central plain of Haiti. It aims to improve and rationalize the popular medical practices based on the use of medicinal plants.
Andrographis paniculata
Very ramified herb, up to 50 cm in height. Ovate-lanceolate to elliptic leaves, 1.5 to 7 cm long and 1 to 2.5 cm wide, glabrous, pale green on the underside, 3 to 5 secondary veins on each side of the central nerve, entire margin, acute to short acuminate apex. Terminal inflorescences in panicles with secondary leaves; glabrous to sparsely pubescent rachis, triangular to subulate bracts. White flowers from 1.5 to 2 cm, with purple dots. Fruits in the form of an ellipsoid capsule, glabrous or pubescent with trichomes at the tip. Rugose seeds, from 2 to 1.5 mm.