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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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Animals traded for traditional medicine in Ghana: their zootherapeutic uses and implications for biodiversity conservation [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineThe 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 +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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“Curanderismo”: Historical Zootherapy Among Criollo Inhabitants in Rural Areas of Córdoba, Argentina
Ethnoscientia - Brazilian Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology, 2021 Abstract Background Studying historical sources and comparing them with current data allows us to describe the uses and customs of past human groups, as well as to make a dynamic comparison with the current state of human-environment relations.
Bárbara Arias Toledo, Cecilia Trillo
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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 +2 more
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ZOOTHERAPY AS A METHOD OF A POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON PEOPLE WITH ANXIETY
EurasianUnionScientists, 2021 Various stressful factors of everyday life cannot be ignored when solving key tasks. Due to the fast pace, modern people are very susceptible to stress, which often leads to terrible consequences (depression, nervous stress, loss of physical and psychological activity).
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