Ethnomedicine and ethnobotany of fright, a Caribbean culture-bound psychiatric syndrome.

摘要: Background "Fright" is an English-speaking Caribbean idiom for illness, or ethnomedical syndrome, of persistent distress. A parallel ethnopsychiatric exists in the French Antilles as sesisma. Fright distinct from susto among Hispanics, though both develop wake traumatic events. West Indian ethnophysiology (ethnoanatomy) theorizes that overload stressful emotions (fear, panic, anguish worry) causes a cold humoral state which blood coagulates causing prolonged distress and increased risks other humorally illnesses.