This work is a guide to Wayana remedies and the result of a collaborative project with the inhabitants of Taluhwen and Antécume Pata, Wayana villages on the Upper Maroni. In this bilingual edition in French and Wayana Marie Fleury reveals the secrets of a people who use plants to heal themselves. At the intersection of Wayana skills and the botanical sciences, this very informative work of 100 or so pages is also the proof that modern science has much to learn from ancestral forms of knowledge.