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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 +7 more
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Implications and applications of folk zootherapy in the state of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil
Sustainable Development, 2004 This 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 ...
Eraldo Medeiros Costa-Neto
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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.
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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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Policies and Problems of Modernizing Ethnomedicine in China: A Focus on the Yi and Dai Traditional Medicines of Yunnan Province. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2020 Yunnan is a multiethnic province in southwest China, rich in Materia medica resources, and is popularly known as the kingdom of plants. Biomedicine and public health industry have been the industrial pillars of Yunnan since 2016, which is the important pharmaceutical industrial base for Dai and Yi medicine in China.
Li Z +6 more
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Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023 Animals have been valued and used to improve human physical and mental health since ancient times. Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) is a complementary approach to traditional medicine, involving trained animals.
Dorota Szewczyk +5 more
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 Background: Local communities use animals and plants as common traditional therapies for various diseases. The study aimed to document animals and animal-plant mixture recipes that are used as alternative and complementary medicine in southern regions of
Sakina Mussarat +5 more
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Veterinary Sciences, 2021 (1) Background: this review documents the wide repertoire of practices and remedies based on the use of human-derived products in Spanish ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) from the early 20th century to the present.
José A. González, José Ramón Vallejo
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Why study the use of animal products in traditional medicines?
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2005 The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that as many as 80% of the world's more than six billion people rely primarily on animal and plant-based medicines. The healing of human ailments by using therapeutics based on medicines obtained from animals
Rosa Ierecê L, Alves Rômulo RN
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Veterinary Sciences, 2022 Common toads have been used since ancient times for remedies and thus constitute excellent biological material for pharmacological and natural product research. According to the results of a previous analysis of the therapeutic use of amphibians in Spain,
José Ramón Vallejo +3 more
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