Do pharmaceuticals displace local knowledge and use of medicinal plants? Estimates from a cross-sectional study in a rural indigenous community, Mexico

Giovannini, Peter; Reyes‐García, Victoria; Waldstein, Anna; Heinrich, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.007

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“…Local medical systems are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of GEC as changes in the vegetation and floristic composition of ecosystems directly influences the availability and use of medicinal plants (Hanazaki et al 2013). Social change can also lead to changes in local medicinal knowledge systems, for example, through outmigration, formal education, and the increasing use of formal medicine (Byg et al 2010; Giovannini et al 2011), all of which are also likely to involve men and women differently.…”

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Gendered medicinal plant knowledge contributions to adaptive capacity and health sovereignty in Amazonia

Díaz-Reviriego

Fernández‐Llamazares

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Local medical systems are key elements of social-ecological systems as they provide culturally appropriate and locally accessible health care options, especially for populations with scarce access to biomedicine. The adaptive capacity of local medical systems generally rests on two pillars: species diversity and a robust local knowledge system, both threatened by local and global environmental change. We first present a conceptual framework to guide the assessment of knowledge diversity and redundancy in local medicinal knowledge systems through a gender lens. Then, we apply this conceptual framework to our research on the local medicinal plant knowledge of the Tsimane’ Amerindians. Our results suggest that Tsimane’ medicinal plant knowledge is gendered and that the frequency of reported ailments and the redundancy of knowledge used to treat them are positively associated. We discuss the implications of knowledge diversity and redundancy for local knowledge systems’ adaptive capacity, resilience, and health sovereignty.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0826-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Gendered medicinal plant knowledge contributions to adaptive capacity and health sovereignty in Amazonia

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Fernández‐Llamazares

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“…Other scholars, however, have warned that this positive association with age does not necessarily imply a loss of knowledge over time. It can, for instance, simply reflect the fact that older people had more time to acquire knowledge during their lifetime or that they are more likely to become ill and thus have a greater interest in acquiring knowledge about natural remedies (Voeks and Leony 2004;Giovannini et al 2011). Hence, comparing the knowledge of younger and older participants at a given time may or may not reveal a process of knowledge erosion (Quinlan and Quinlan 2007).…”

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Are the Young Less Knowledgeable? Local Knowledge of Natural Remedies and Its Transformations in the Andean Highlands

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A widespread concern among ethnobiologists is the rapid process of erosion of indigenous environmental knowledge observed worldwide. This paper examines the ongoing transformations of knowledge about natural remedies in the Quechua-speaking Andes. Freelisting exercises and interviews were conducted with 36 households at Bolivian and Peruvian study sites. (Generalized) linear mixedeffects models were used to analyze the effects of age on knowledge about medicinal plants, animals, minerals, and their uses. Our study demonstrates that younger participants knew as much about natural remedies as their elders. However, proportional knowledge about some medicinal use categories of natural remedies varied with age. We conclude that knowledge about natural remedies is generally not being lost at the study sites. Nevertheless, it is undergoing transformations in terms of specific medicinal uses. A careful understanding of these complex transformation processes is needed to better orient initiatives for the conservation of biocultural diversity in the Andes and elsewhere.

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“…Creemos que ello se debe a que en Cusco coexisten tres sectores del sistema del cuidado de salud: el sector popular (representado por el ciudadano común); el sector folklórico (representado por curanderos o chamanes), y el sector profesional (representado por profesionales de la salud) (7) ; este contexto cultural determinaría la elevada frecuencia de uso de plantas medicinales solas o en combinación con medicamentos. Los estudios sugieren que la cooperación entre la medicina tradicional, en este caso empleo de plantas medicinales, y la medicina occidental es posible y beneficiosa para la población; por el contrario, la falta de cooperación puede generar mal uso de la medicina tradicional por el mismo paciente e incluso por el personal de salud (17,18) .…”

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Empleo de plantas medicinales en usuarios de dos hospitales referenciales del Cusco, Perú

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Hernández-Córdova

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Rev Peru Med Exp Salud Publica

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RESUMENCon el fin de determinar la frecuencia de empleo de plantas medicinales y describir las características de su uso en pacientes de dos hospitales referenciales de la ciudad de Cusco, se realizó un estudio transversal entre agosto y septiembre de 2011. Para el recojo de datos se construyó un instrumento, validado por juicio de expertos. El tamaño de la muestra fue de 250 personas seleccionadas no probabilísticamente. El 83,2 y 75,3% informaron haber empleado plantas medicinales alguna vez en su vida y en el último mes, respectivamente; además, el 85,7 señaló que desearía que su médico le recete plantas medicinales. Sus usos más frecuentes son para problemas digestivos (62,4%); urinarios (42,4%), y respiratorios (40,4%). Se concluye que el empleo de plantas medicinales se encuentra bastante difundido entre los usuarios de dos hospitales referenciales de la ciudad de Cusco. Los patrones de empleo revelan que los pacientes desean que los médicos del sistema de salud prescriban plantas medicinales en su acto médico. Palabras clave: Plantas medicinales; Medicina tradicional; Hospitales; Perú (fuente: DeCS BIREME). USE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS AMONG PEOPLE ATTENDING TWO REFERENCE HOSPITALS IN CUSCO, PERU ABSTRACTIn order to determine the frequency and characteristics of the use of medicinal plants in patients from two third-level hospitals in the city of Cusco, a cross-sectional study was conducted between August and September 2011. For data collection, an instrument was built and validated through experts' judgment. INTRODUCCIÓNSegún la Organización Mundial de Salud, la medicina tradicional comprende a las prácticas, los enfoques, los conocimientos y las creencias sanitarias diversas que incorporan medicinas basadas en plantas; en animales o minerales; en terapias espirituales; en técnicas manuales, y en ejercicios aplicados de forma individual, o en combinación, para mantener el bienestar, además de tratar, diagnosticar y prevenir las enfermedades (1) .En países en vías de desarrollo se ha descrito que hasta el 90% de la población usa la medicina tradicional (1) .Estudios en Latinoamérica reportan diferentes frecuencias de uso de plantas medicinales. En una zona rural de Córdova (Argentina) se ha descrito que el 100% de la población conocía sobre el uso de plantas medicinales, y el 78% conocía al menos cinco especies (2) . En Brasil, dependiendo de la región, la frecuencia de uso de plantas medicinales puede variar entre 70 y 98% de pobladores que la usan (3,4) . En tanto que en Panamá el 84% de adultos que acuden a una unidad de atención primaria, usan también plantas medicinales (5) .El año 2007 se realizó una cumbre internacional organizada por el Colegio Médico del Perú, conocida

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Do pharmaceuticals displace local knowledge and use of medicinal plants? Estimates from a cross-sectional study in a rural indigenous community, Mexico

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Cited by 77 publications

References 27 publications

Gendered medicinal plant knowledge contributions to adaptive capacity and health sovereignty in Amazonia

Gendered medicinal plant knowledge contributions to adaptive capacity and health sovereignty in Amazonia

Are the Young Less Knowledgeable? Local Knowledge of Natural Remedies and Its Transformations in the Andean Highlands

Empleo de plantas medicinales en usuarios de dos hospitales referenciales del Cusco, Perú

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