Within the framework of TRAMIL Program to prepare a complete inventory of plants used in the Afro-Caribbean traditional medicine, it was decided to investigate five communities in Panamá. These communities, Nombre de Dios, Palenque, Viento Frio, Miramar, and Cuango are localed in Northerm Panama on the Caribbean sea coast. Ten health problems were selected, according to the information obtained from the health post as the most commons problems. Since most of the people now-a-days visit Health Post only five health problems, namely: fever, headache, asthma, diarrhoea and intestinal parasities were significantly (>10 por ciento of family investigated use medicinal plants to treat this disease) treated using medicinal plants. Twelve plants showing significant (>20 por ciento of frecuency) use were collected and their identities established by prof. Mireya Correa, Director of the Herbarium of the, University of Panama, where voucher specimens are deposited