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ZOOTHERAPY AMONG THE ETHNIC GROUPS OF NORTH EASTERN REGION OF INDIA-A CRITICAL REVIEW

Journal of Critical Reviews, 2017
The main objective of the study is to review the practices of Zootherapy among the ethnic groups of the northeastern part of India and to prepare an inventory of all the information.
Sudipta Choudhury, K. Chanreila L. Nonglait, Khirod Sankar Das   +2 more
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A mixed methods study of zootherapy practices and associated risks for zoonotic disease spillover in Rwanda

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Abstract Background Zootherapy, the use of animals for human medicine and related cultural purposes, is an important component of traditional medicine, which is used by 80% of the global population. Human-animal interaction within zootherapy practices is a potential pathway for zoonotic disease spillover, and ...
Mahoro Janvier
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Traditional healing with animals (zootherapy): medieval to present-day Levantine practice

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2003
Animals and products derived from different organs of their bodies have constituted part of the inventory of medicinal substances used in various cultures since ancient times. This article reviews the history of healing with animals in the Levant (the Land of Israel and parts of present-day Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, defined by the Muslims in the ...
Efraim Lev
exaly   +3 more sources

Zootherapy in social rehabilitation of children with special needs

Socialʹnaâ Politika I Socialʹnoe Partnërstvo, 2023
Children with special needs experience significant difficulties in organizing their educational and communicative activities and behavior due to their developmental characteristics, as well as somatic diseases. Such children have problems in socialization and psycho-emotional sphere (they are anxious, vulnerable, painfully react to changes in life ...
S. N. Ispulova, A. A. Proshkina, D. E. Sadovina   +2 more
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Some Comments on Context Embodiment in Zootherapy: The Case of the Autidolfijn Project

Anthrozoos, 1999
ABSTRACTThe Autidolfijn project was undertaken in 1991 in Bruges, Belgium, to asses the effect of interactions with captive dolphins on learning in autistic children. The project lasted four years and ended with ambiguous results. Although one group of children did seem to gain learning benefits from working with the dolphins, difficulties arising from
Véronique Servais
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Zootherapy goes to town: The use of animal-based remedies in urban areas of NE and N Brazil

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2007
This paper examines the therapeutic possibilities offered by animal-based remedies in five Brazilian cities. Information was obtained through semi-structured questionnaires applied to 79 traders of medicinal animals at São Luís, Teresina, João Pessoa and Campina Grande (Northeastern) and Belém (Northern) Brazil. We recorded the use of 97 animal species
Rômulo Romeu da Nóbrega Alves
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Biodiversity conservation, human–animal interactions, and zootherapy in ecological knowledge of Indonesian Healers

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We examined the entanglement of biodiversity conservation, human–animal interactions, zootherapy, and local beliefs among Sumatran Healers and their local community by completing an ethnography of 43 Indigenous Healers across 8 tribes in Bengkulu Province, Sumatra, Indonesia.
Patricia G Patrick
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Mediterranean Zootherapy: A Historical to Modern Perspective

2012
Animals have been used as a source of human medicine for millennia. In the Mediterranean, these ancient practices were documented in historic texts such as Dioscoride’s De Materia Medica (40–90 A.D.) and continue to be documented even in current day ethnobiological surveys. Here, we summarize a few recent ethnobiological literature on Southern European
Cassandra L. Quave, Andrea Pieroni
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Zootherapy and Biodiversity Conservation in Nigeria

2012
Zootherapy, the use of animal products in health care delivery is widely accepted among the various constituent nationalities in Nigeria. This practice involves domesticated and wild fauna resources, cutting across all taxa. In addition to health challenges treated by conventional medicine, zootherapy in Nigeria also accommodates situations that are ...
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Ayurvedic Influences and Novel Combination of Phytotherapy and Zootherapy by a Folk Medicinal Practitioner of Domar Upazila in Nilphamari District, Bangladesh

American Journal of Ethnomedicine, 2017
Background: Bangladesh is possibly unique in that many different traditional medicinal systems are present like Ayurveda, Unani, homeopathy, and folk medicine. The objective of the present study was to document the novel therapeutic practices of a folk medicinal practitioner (FMP) in Nilphamari district, who used a combination of phytotherapy and ...
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Christophe Wiart, Taufiq Rahman   +2 more
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