This is the folk medicine of the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas - the criollo and curandero traditions that grew out of indigenous Mesoamerican, Andean and Amazonian practice after the sixteenth century, together with the European and West African plants that arrived with it. It overlaps the Indigenous American hub on purpose and by a lot: a remedy whose own source names both appears on both, because filing it under one would misdescribe it. A few of these have substantial clinical literature - maca, uña de gato, boldo, pau d'arco. Most have documented use and little else, and the grade says so. Some Amazonian preparations are psychoactive and legally restricted in many countries; those pages say that rather than leaving it to be discovered.
Not every remedy names a tradition. Browse the full A–Z index for all 3,787 remedies, including the 255 with no recorded tradition.
