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Traditional Medicine and the Pangolin Trade: A Review of Drivers and Conservation Challenges

Conservation
Pangolins (Manidae), recognized for their distinctive keratinous scales, are the world’s most trafficked mammals. This is primarily due to their extensive use in traditional medicine systems in Africa and Asia, where their body parts, particularly their ...
Chamali Kodikara, Dilara Gunawardane, Dasangi Warakapitiya, Minoli Perera, Dinithi C. Peiris   +4 more
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A case of zootherapy with the tarantula Brachypelma vagans Ausserer, 1875 in traditional medicine of the Chol Mayan ethnic group in Mexico [PDF]

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2011
Abstract Background In practically every human culture, the use of arthropods as medicinal resources has been reported. In Mexico, the Mayan people mainly use plants but occasionally also animals and minerals in their medicine. This article is the first to report the traditional use of the tarantula Brachypelma vagans by
Rojo Roberto, Winterton Peter, Hénaut Yann, Machkour-M'Rabet Salima   +3 more
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Animals and animal products as medicines: A survey of Epie-Atissa and Ogbia people of Bayelsa State, Nigeria [PDF]

Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research, 2018
Context: The importance of traditional medicine cannot be over emphasized as a quarter of prescription drugs globally are natural based. In this type of medicine, plants are mixed together or are sometimes used in combination with other materials such as
Gideon O. Alade, Arueniobebh Frank, Kola’ K. Ajibesin   +2 more
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Uso de animais na medicina popular: Diagnóstico sociocultural e etnozoológico na zona rural de Jaçanã (RN)

Revista Principia, 2019
The use of animals or their parts in obtaining and preparing medicines for the treatment of diseases is approached by one of the branches of ethnozoology, zootherapy. The studies in zootherapy aim to discover new drugs.
Robson Júnio Pereira de Lima, Juliana dos Santos Severiano   +1 more
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Medicinal use of fauna by a traditional community in the Brazilian Amazonia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2012
Background Zootherapy inventories are important as they contribute to the world documentation of the prevalence, importance and diversity of the medicinal use of animals in traditional human communities.
Barros Flávio B, Varela Susana AM, Pereira Henrique M, Vicente Luís   +3 more
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Animal-based medicines used in ethnoveterinary practices in the semi-arid region of Northeastern Brazil

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2012
This work documents the zootherapeutic practices in Ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) of Pedra Lavrada (6°45'S, 36°28'W), Northeastern Brazil. We interviewed 23 people (22 men and 1 woman), who provided information on animal species used as remedies, body ...
Wedson M.S. Souto, Raynner R.D. Barboza, Michelle S.P. Rocha, Rômulo R.N. Alves, José S. Mourão   +4 more
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Medicinal animals used in ethnoveterinary practices of the 'Cariri Paraibano', NE Brazil

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2011
Background Zootherapy is important in various socio-cultural environments, and innumerous examples of the use of animal derived remedies can currently be found in many urban, semi-urban and more remote localities in all parts of the world, particularly ...
Lopez Luiz CS, Montenegro Paulo FGP, Vieira Washington LS, Confessor Maine VA, Lucena Reinaldo FP, Mendonça Lívia ET, Mourão José S, Barboza Raynner RD, Souto Wedson MS, Alves Rômulo RN   +9 more
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Medicinal use of secretions (“the frog vaccine”) from the kambô frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) by non-indigenous peoples in Rondônia, Brazil [PDF]

Biotemas, 2009
Amphibians have pharmaceutically active skin secretions that protect against infections and predation. Some indigenous people in southwestern Amazonia use these secretions from P. bicolor for medicinal purposes.
Paulo Sérgio Bernarde, Rosimeyri Aparecida Santos   +1 more
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Fauna used in popular medicine in Northeast Brazil

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2009
Background Animal-based remedies constitute an integral part of Brazilian Traditional Medicine. Due to its long history, zootherapy has in fact become an integral part of folk medicine both in rural and urban areas of the country.
Alves Rômulo RN
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A Bioethics view zootherapy

, 2015
Os animais podem auxiliar em inúmeras atividades humanas incluindo terapias com benefícios já reconhecidos, contudo com algumas questões éticas. Logo, objetivou-se contextualizar social e eticamente o uso de animais como co-terapeutas e refletir sobre a intervenção da Bioética na normatização de um problema complexo, global e plural, tendo como plano ...
Fischer, Marta Luciane, Amorim Zanatta, Amanda, Rezende Adami, Eliana   +2 more
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