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Environmental influence on the choice of medicinal animals: a case study from northeastern Brazil

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2019
Background Animals from various taxonomic groups are commonly used in folk medicine, and their selection seems to be directly linked to their availability and accessibility.
Iamara da Silva Policarpo Brito, Anna Karolina Martins Borges, Sérgio de Faria Lopes, Thelma Lúcia Pereira Dias, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega Alves   +4 more
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Ethnozoological study of animals based medicine used by traditional healers and indigenous inhabitants in the adjoining areas of Gibbon Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2017
Background India has an immense faunal, floral, as well as cultural diversity with many ethnic communities who are primarily dependent on the traditional medicinal system for their primary health care.
Manash Pratim Borah, Surya Bali Prasad
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Ethnozoological study of traditional medicinal appreciation of animals and their products among the indigenous people of Metema Woreda, North-Western Ethiopia

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2018
Background Using animals for different purposes goes back to the dawn of mankind. Animals served as a source of food, medicine, and clothing for humans and provided other services.
Fasil Adugna Kendie, Sileshi Andualem Mekuriaw, Melkamu Andargie Dagnew   +2 more
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Données ethnozoologiques sur l’utilisation des oiseaux dans la médecine traditionnelle chez le peuple Gouro de la Marahoué de Côte d’Ivoire (Afrique de l’Ouest)

VertigO, 2017
An inventory of the birds used in the traditional pharmacopeia of the Gouro people of Côte d’Ivoire was carried out in 19 villages of the area of Marahoué, in the western center of the country, during five months, from august 2010 to december 2010 and 15
Tih Mathieu Koue Bi , K.H Yaokokoré-Beibro, Benoît Kouadio Kasse, Philippe Kouassi Kouassi   +3 more
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Use of black vulture (Coragyps atratus) in complementary and alternative therapies for cancer in Colombia: A qualitative study

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2012
Background Although Coragyps atratus has been used as a traditional therapy for patients with cancer, the scientific literature does not contain enough information on how this therapy is used or the mechanisms that explain this therapeutic practice ...
Sánchez-Pedraza Ricardo, Gamba-Rincón Magda R, González-Rangel Andrés L   +2 more
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Method, Measurement and Evaluation in Zootherapy

, 2017
Therapies made in humans using animals (zootherapy) are used in the treatment of various diseases, but they appear to be more prominent in mental disorders. In this study, information about the methods and measurement techniques to be followed in the use of horses and dogs for this purpose is compiled. With the veterinarian being the first on the scene,
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Medicinal use of insects in the county of Pedra Branca, Santa Terezinha, Bahia, Brazil [PDF]

Biotemas, 2005
This paper deals with the use of insects as medicinal resources by inhabitants of the county of Pedra Branca, which is located in the interior of Bahia State, northeastern Brazil.
Josué Marques Pacheco, Eraldo Medeiros Costa Neto   +1 more
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Reconditioning weekend stays focused on zootherapy [PDF]

Kontakt, 2005
Věra Kalinová, Lenka Motlová
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84- Zootherapy as a healing practice in North East, India: A review

The North-Eastern part of India is the hub of rich biodiversity as well as cultural diversity. People of North East India have been dependent on nature and natural products for therapeutic purposes since time immemorial. There are communities where the knowledge of traditional practices hereditarily passes from one generation to the other.
Bardoloi, Arpita, Deka, Trishna
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Zootherapy and ethnozoological studies of Medicinal animals and their products used by the tribal communities in Goa

International Journal of Ayurvedic Medicine
Traditional medicine is also known by several other terms such as alternative or complementary or folk medicine'. It includes the sum of the total knowledge, health practices approaches and beliefs incorporating plants, animals, minerals, medicines, spiritual therapies, yoga and physical exercises used by different cultures for generations to prevent ...
Harshada Gaonkar, Akshita Gaonkar, Anjali Velip, Kulkarni Rajender Rao   +3 more
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