1999
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-8741(98)00158-5
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Healing with animals in Feira de Santana City, Bahia, Brazil

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“…The stingless bees occupy a prominent place among the species used as food and medicine by Polish settlers and Criollos, which coincides exactly with the findings of others ethnoentomolgical studies conducted in different regions of America [18,19,41,[54][55][56]. The high diversity of stingless bee's species (aprox.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 85%
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“…The stingless bees occupy a prominent place among the species used as food and medicine by Polish settlers and Criollos, which coincides exactly with the findings of others ethnoentomolgical studies conducted in different regions of America [18,19,41,[54][55][56]. The high diversity of stingless bee's species (aprox.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 85%
“…Other ways of preparations like infusions, poultices and syrups reported in our study, were cited before in the neighboring Argentinean regions [41,58,78]. On the other hand, the burning and inhalation of smoke or wax of the nest of some stingless bees practiced among indigenous and rural populations in Brazil [18,54,55], is not observed as a form of administration in our study region. The medicinal use of pure honey, especially yateí, is related to the perception of purity and admiration of this insect in the local worldview in Misiones.…”
Section: Complex Remedies Forms Of Preparation and Administrationmentioning
confidence: 42%
“…The economical value of zootherapy, as expressed by those who trade animal-based medicines, should be taken into account whenever one makes political and environmental measures against this trade [6,17,25,26,29]. Instead of sending the practitioners of zootherapy to prisons, or creating policies which force them to abandon such a practice, decision-makers should view this human/nature connection within its cultural dimension.…”
Section: Conservationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Prior to the development of synthetic chemicals, plant and animal extracts were the only sources of organochemical and medical compounds. [1,2] Considering animal species, they are therapeutic arsenals that have been playing significant roles in the healing processes and magical-religious practices of peoples from all over the world, where folk remedies are elaborated from parts of the animal body, from products of its metabolism, such as corporal secretions and excrements, or from animal-made materials such as nests [3][4][5][6][7][8].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Sea horses (Hippocampus spp. ), long-time favourites of aquarists, are additionally dried in large scale for the souvenir trade, use in folk medicine (Costa-Neto 1999;Warmolts 2000), and even witchcraft (authors' observations). About half of the male sea horses harvested for souvenir trade and traditional medicine in NE Brazil carry eggs in their brood pouch (Rosa, personal communication 2002).…”
Section: The Impacts Of Harvestingmentioning
confidence: 99%