[Indigenous medicine in Spain and its commercialization (1492-1550)].

In this article the important herbalist knowledge that the native healers or behiques possessed in la Española are pointed out. They concealed their herbalist knowledge as a means to preserve their priviledged social status, on the ather haud, es a rejection to the conquerors. Soon the spaniards realised the importance that the native herbalist knouledge had as an enterprise and began a profitable trade of liqueur and medicinal plants to the Iberian Peninsula.