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Traditional Medicine and the Pangolin Trade: A Review of Drivers and Conservation Challenges
ConservationPangolins (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 +4 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 +2 more
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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 +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 +3 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 +1 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 +9 more
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Medical Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacology in Latin America
, 2012 Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012.
Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque +4 more
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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 +4 more
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Zootherapy in Recife (Pernambuco, Brasil): articulating history and practice [PDF]
Biotemas, 2004 The use of animals in therapeutic practices has been a reality throughout human history, although it is not yet a well understood phenomenon. The main objective of this study was to describe and analyze the use of medicinal fauna in Recife, Pernambuco ...
Argus Vasconcelos de Almeida +2 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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