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Hatte die zootherapie ägyptischer und babylonischer pharmakopoen einfluss auf die dreck-apotheke des 17. Jahrhunderts? [PDF]

ISIMU, 2007
La nomenclatura escatológica en las farmacopeas egipcias y mesopotámicas: ¿se trata en efecto de presuntos nombres secretos dados a las plantas medicinales para retener el saber en un grupo de iniciados? ¿Fue el uso excesivo de excrementos animales y humanos en los remedios hasta el siglo XVIII el resultado de una falsa interpretación de los textos ...
Stiehler-Alegría, Gisela
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Mild histological distortions in rat organs after a 14-day oral exposure to the slime extract of African giant land snails [PDF]

Toxicology Reports
Objective: Snail slime possesses various pharmacological activities that are becoming attractive for zootherapy, thereby necessitating the profiling of its safety and toxicity.
Damilare E. Rotimi, Morayo E. Barnabas, Tobiloba C. Elebiyo, Amarachi B. Iroaganachi, Funmilayo A. Okeniyi, Oluwakemi J. Awakan, Musbau A. Akanji, Oluyomi S. Adeyemi   +7 more
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Zootherapy in Recife (Pernambuco, Brasil): articulating history and practice [PDF]

Biotemas, 2004
The use of animals in therapeutic practices has been a reality throughout human history, although it is not yet a well understood phenomenon. The main objective of this study was to describe and analyze the use of medicinal fauna in Recife, Pernambuco ...
Argus Vasconcelos de Almeida, Ângelo Giuseppe Chaves Alves, Maria Letícia Vasconcelos da Silva   +2 more
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The mollusks in zootherapy: traditional medicine and clinical-pharmacological importance [PDF]

Biotemas, 2006
The use of animals as sources of medicines is a cross-cultural phenomenon that is historically ancient and geographically widespread. This article reviews the use of mollusks in traditional medicine and discusses the clinical and pharmacological ...
Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto
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A comprehensive review on animals and their products used in traditional folk medicine in Ethiopia [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background Zootherapy is the treatment of human and livestock ailments using medicines derived from animals and their products. The objective of this review paper was to compile and document ethnozoological knowledge on traditional medicinal animals used
Alembrhan Assefa, Kalayu Mesfin, Teklay Girmay   +2 more
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Healing from the wild: an ethnozoological exploration of animal-based medicine in Jhargram, West Bengal, India [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background India possesses immense faunal, floral, and cultural diversity that supports numerous ethnic communities relying on traditional medicine for primary healthcare.
Rakesh Acharya, Sanjib Kumar Das, Ankur Bhowal, Koushik Sen   +3 more
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Traditional knowledge of invertebrates used for medicine and magical–religious purposes by traditional healers and indigenous populations in the Plateau Department, Republic of Benin [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2019
Background Since ancient times, invertebrates have played an important role in the traditional medicine in many parts of the world. In south-eastern Benin, more specifically in the Plateau Department, invertebrates are widely used in folk medicine ...
Laura Estelle Yêyinou Loko, Sédami Medegan Fagla, Azize Orobiyi, Bienvenu Glinma, Joelle Toffa, Omédine Koukoui, Luc Djogbenou, Fernand Gbaguidi   +7 more
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Zootherapy in Asia through the Lens of Museums of Traditional Medicine. [PDF]

Yale J Biol Med
Jarosz KR.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Animals traded for traditional medicine in Ghana: their zootherapeutic uses and implications for biodiversity conservation [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
The use of animals for zootherapeutic purposes has been reported worldwide, and with the patronage of complementary and alternative medicines being on the ascendency, the trade and use of animal parts will only escalate.
Evans Paul Kwame Ameade, Daniel Korley Attuquayefio, Francis Gbogbo, Joseph Adusei-Sarkodie, Benjamin Yeboah Ofori, Stephen Gbedema, Emmanuel Adom   +6 more
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Ethnozoological study of animal based medicines used by traditional healers from south eastern area of Golaghat district, Assam [PDF]

Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 2023
Animals have played an important role in human life from ancient times. The knowledge on the use of many animals and their by-products in traditional medicines by various ethnic communities is generally passed verbally from one generation to the next ...
Gitashri Saikia, Raju N.L.
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