TRAMIL Seminars 

The main objectives of the seminars have been the summary of the investigations scheduled and carried out from the previous seminar, as well as the revision of the recommendations according to the results of these new investigations, and to new bibliographical data (more than 3,660 references in total). This data was provided by participants and by computerized databases: ACCT, Biosis, CNRS, Fundaçao Brasileira of Medicinal Plants-ITAUTEC, Max Planck Institute, Medline and mainly NAPRALERT.
 

Realized Seminars:

TRAMIL	city	country	date	co-organizer	photos
I	Port-au-Prince	Haiti	Nov. 1984	Fac. de Medicina
II	Sto.Domingo	Dom. Rep.	Nov. 1986	UASD
III	Havana	Cuba	Nov. 1988	MINSAP
IV	Tela	Honduras	Nov. 1989	UNAH
V	Livingston	Guatemala	Nov. 1990	CONAPLAMED
VI	Basse-Terre	Guadeloupe	Nov. 1992	UAG
VII	San Andrés	Colombia	Feb. 1995	U. de Antioquia
VIII	St. George's	Grenada, W.I.	Dec. 1997	Min. of Health & Agric.
IX	Cayenne	Guyane	Nov. 1998	IRD (ex.ORSTOM)
IX	Clayton	Panama	Feb.2001	CIFLORPAN
XI	Mérida	Mexico	March 2003	CICY/SEMARNAT
XII	Sainte Anne	Martinique	March 2006	ARVARNAM
XIII	St Augustine	Trinidad & Tobago	Feb. 2008	UWI & UTT
XIV	(project)	Cartagena	March 2010	UDC

The first TRAMIL seminar (Haiti, 1984) established the links between the ethnopharmacological surveys and the stages that were to follow. In particular, it allowed to specify a limited selection of medicinal species that were responding to a certain number of defined criteria during the seminar, and to give orientations for complementary research.