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Pain and Inflammation: Update on Emerging Phytotherapy, Zootherapy, and Nutritional Therapies [PDF]

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2016
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2016, Issue 1, 2016.
Bamidele VÍCTOR Owoyele, Musa Toyin Yakubu, Roi Treister   +2 more
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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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Medicinal invertebrates used in African traditional medicine: a systematic review [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Information on entomotherapy in Africa is fragmented across different countries, resulting in the lack of comprehensive documentation of the diversity of invertebrate species used in traditional medicine.
Sinenhlahla Promise Mntambo, Rob Slotow, Peter Tshepiso Ndhlovu, Caswell Munyai   +3 more
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Zootherapy in the Amazon: green anaconda ( Eunectes murinus ) fat as a natural medicine to treat wounds [PDF]

Acta Amazonica, 2017
Zootherapy (the use of the therapeutic potential of animals) is at least 6,000 years old, and has been kept active throughout generations until modern days. Animal fat is commonly used in the zootherapeutic folk medicine from South America, specially the
Fernanda P Werneck, Rafael De Fraga, Werneck Fernanda P   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

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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Animal and their products used for treatment and prevention of disease practiced by traditional healers in Jimma Arjo district, East Wollega Zone, Western Ethiopia. [PDF]

Vet Med Sci, 2023
This finding assessed animals and their products used for the treatment of human and animal ailments. Collected from 36 key informants indicated a total of 33 animal species was used for treating human and livestock disease. Different healer's anonymously agreed on medicinal use of Apis mellifera, Hystrix cristata and Sus scrofa domesticus.
Efa DA.
europepmc   +2 more sources

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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Zootherapy in Asia through the Lens of Museums of Traditional Medicine [PDF]

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
Jarosz KR.
exaly   +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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