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The Trade in Medicinal Animals in Northeastern Brazil [PDF]
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 Over the centuries, a significant part of the Brazilian fauna is widely sold, more specifically in retail stores or street markets. The objective was to characterize the sale of medicinal animals in five large northeast cities. Information about the sale
Felipe Silva Ferreira +4 more
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Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America [PDF]
, 2012 Through their long exposure and experience with natural resources, many local communities in Latin America have developed health care practices. Thousands of years of observation and experimentation have helped in developing different empirical medical ...
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque +4 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.
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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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New applications for the One Health: Healthcare Zooanthropology and the Federico II Model of Zootherapy [PDF]
, 2017 The adoption of One Health, the historic resolution that ensued from the understanding between the American Medical Association and the American Veterinary Association in 2007, defined and promoted the concept of One Health as "the combined effort of ...
Gerardi, Federica
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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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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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The human-animal relationship: a new field of social-educational action [PDF]
, 2014 This article analyses the educational approaches towards the animal-human relationship which have been developed during the last 20 years. The article establishes a chain of states in that relationship and presents the reasons why those states are ...
Senent Sánchez, Joan Maria
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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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