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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, Li C, Zhang X, Tang S, Yang H, Cui X, Huang L.   +6 more
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Therapeutic Role of Animals: A Comprehensive Literature Review on the Prevalent Forms and Species in Animal-Assisted Interventions

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, Jakub Fiega, Milena Michalska, Urszula Żurek, Zuzanna Lubaszka, Ewa Sikorska   +5 more
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Medicinal Animals and Plants as Alternative and Complementary Medicine in Southern Regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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, Rehman Ali, Shandana Ali, Ramzi A. Mothana, Riaz Ullah, Muhammad Adnan   +5 more
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Relics and Historical Uses of Human Zootherapeutic Products in Contemporary Spanish Ethnoveterinary Medicine

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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Histological Study of Glandular Variability in the Skin of the Natterjack Toad—Epidalea calamita (Laurenti, 1768)—Used in Spanish Historical Ethnoveterinary Medicine and Ethnomedicine

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, José A. González, María Eugenia Gómez-Navarro, José María López-Cepero   +3 more
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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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Reptiles sold as traditional medicine in Xipamanine and Xiquelene Markets (Maputo, Mozambique)

South African Journal of Science, 2016
Zootherapy plays a role in healing practices in Mozambican society. Although several studies have focused on ethnobotany and traditional medicine in the country, little research has been conducted on the use of reptiles in zootherapy.
Vivienne L. Williams, Thibedi J. Moshoeu, Graham J. Alexander   +2 more
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Cicadidae Periostracum, the Cast‐Off Skin of Cicada, Protects Dopaminergic Neurons in a Model of Parkinson’s Disease

Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019., 2019
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by dopaminergic neuronal loss in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNPC) and the striatum. Nuclear receptor‐related 1 protein (Nurr1) is a nuclear hormone receptor implicated in limiting mitochondrial dysfunction, apoptosis, and inflammation in the central nervous system and protecting dopaminergic neurons ...
Hye-Sun Lim, Joong-Sun Kim, Byeong Cheol Moon, Goya Choi, Seung Mok Ryu, Jun Lee, Mary Jasmin Ang, Mijin Jeon, Changjong Moon, Gunhyuk Park, Giovanna Cenini   +10 more
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DNA Barcoding for the Identification and Authentication of Animal Species in Traditional Medicine

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2018, Issue 1, 2018., 2018
Animal‐based traditional medicine not only plays a significant role in therapeutic practices worldwide but also provides a potential compound library for drug discovery. However, persistent hunting and illegal trade markedly threaten numerous medicinal animal species, and increasing demand further provokes the emergence of various adulterants.
Fan Yang, Fei Ding, Hong Chen, Mingqi He, Shixin Zhu, Xin Ma, Li Jiang, Haifeng Li, Yoshiki Mukudai   +8 more
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Trends in Medicinal Uses of Edible Wild Vertebrates in Brazil

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2017, Issue 1, 2017., 2017
The use of food medicines is a widespread practice worldwide. In Brazil, such use is often associated with wild animals, mostly focusing on vertebrate species. Here we assessed taxonomic and ecological trends in traditional uses of wild edible vertebrates in the country, through an extensive ethnobiological database analysis. Our results showed that at
Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves, Tacyana Pereira Ribeiro Oliveira, Maria Franco Trindade Medeiros, Ghee T. Tan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source