Medicinal plants: they form the Malagasy pharmacopoeia, so denigrated during the first civilizing colonial period. Much of the ancestral knowledge and practice has been lost. Today, the Malagasy queue in front of the dispensaries of NGOs to obtain expired medicines coming from Europe or they buy "paracetamol" at the neighborhood gargote, the slightest health problem.
Let it be said, the pharmacopoeia of Madagascar is in great danger of disappearing. Some scientists have given themselves the task of rehabilitating it: but what can they expect when NGOs or other associations import "medicines" that they distribute free of charge? A current Malagasy child is not able to name and harvest 2 medicinal plants. As for example, the periwinkle of Madagascar, which grows in the wild in the yard of our school !!
