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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 ...
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Zootherapy in Archaeology: The Case of the Fallow Deer(Dama dama dama)

Journal of Ethnobiology, 2016
The abundant anthropological and historical evidence for animal-based medicine, or zootherapy, suggests that animals are, and have always been, perceived as important components in maintaining human health and well-being. Despite being interwoven into every aspect of life, from food medicines to ritual practice and everyday human-animal interactions ...
Holly Miller, Naomi Sykes
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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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Biodiversity conservation, human–animal interactions, and zootherapy in ecological knowledge of Indonesian Healers

Conservation Biology
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, Abdul Rahman Singkam   +1 more
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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
Alves, Romulo R. N., Rosa, Lerece L.
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Implications and applications of folk zootherapy in the state of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil

Sustainable Development, 2004
AbstractThis paper deals with the use of 180 animal species as medicinal resources in the state of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil. Data, which come from field works carried out in different indigenous, traditional, rural and urban communities within Bahia State, were gathered through the compilation of information available in scientific articles ...
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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 ...
Samsun Nahar, Be nazir Farzana, Rownak Jahan, Taufiq Rahman, Md Shahadat Hossan, Christophe Wiart, Mohammed Rahmatullah   +6 more
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Some Comments on Context Embodiment in Zootherapy: The Case of the Autidolfijn Project

Anthrozoös, 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
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84- Zootherapy as a healing practice in North East, India: A review

The North-Eastern part of India is the hub of rich biodiversity as well as cultural diversity. People of North East India have been dependent on nature and natural products for therapeutic purposes since time immemorial. There are communities where the knowledge of traditional practices hereditarily passes from one generation to the other.
Bardoloi, Arpita, Deka, Trishna
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Method, Measurement and Evaluation in Zootherapy

2017
Therapies made in humansusing animals (zootherapy) are used in the treatment of various diseases, butthey appear to be more prominent in mental disorders. In this study,information about the methods and measurement techniques to be followed in theuse of horses and dogs for this purpose is compiled.
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