Medicinal Plant Knowledge Among Lay People in Five Eastern Tibet Villages

Byg, Anja; Salick, Jan; Law, Wayne

doi:10.1007/s10745-009-9300-z

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“…The distant and undisturbed sites are often cited by traditional healers as refuges for quality products supported by studies from adjoining areas of India [104,105] and other parts of the world [106,107] where a higher number of indigenous species with medicinal usage are being used at remote and higher altitudes. People in higher elevation villages know and use more medicinal plants than people in lower villages [102,108]. However, Toledo et al .…”

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Land-Use and Socioeconomic Change, Medicinal Plant Selection and Biodiversity Resilience in Far Western Nepal

Kunwar

Baral²,

Paudel

et al. 2016

PLoS ONE

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Indigenous plant use-systems have evolved under, and constantly adapted to human and non-human impacts. In the last decades however, increasing socioeconomic and cultural transformations, including land-use change, outmigration, globalized markets, the introduction of new species, and climate change have led to a decreasing availability of indigenous resources, and are ultimately leading to a reduction of local use-knowledge. Participant observations, discussions, walks-in-the-woods, semi-structured interviews and informal meetings were carried out in 12 villages of far western Nepal between 2011 and 2015 to assess how sociocultural changes have affected the sustenance of indigenous systems and local biodiversity, when compared to studies carried out in the previous decades. Our findings show that there were no statistically significant differences in subject variable means, but differences were relatively important to plant parts-use and plant growth-forms (p = 0.183 and 0.088 respectively). Cissampelos pareira, Acorus calamus, Calotropis gigantea were found to have the greatest relative importance, whereas Ageratina adenophora, Melia azedarach, Carum carvi were most important based on use values. Among them, C. pareira and A. adenophora were introduced. The spatial distribution of species collected for medicine showed that all habitats were important for collection however, habitats close to villages were more favored. The use of non-indigenous and easily available species and more accessible habitats is becoming more prevalent as primary forests become increasingly overexploited, indigenous species become limited, and sociocultural cause of land use change expand. The utilization of indigenous and non-indigenous species and nearby habitats, although possibly affecting the quality of medicinal species, nonetheless reveals the dynamism of indigenous medicines as an adaptive asset mitigating human and non-human environmental changes.

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Land-Use and Socioeconomic Change, Medicinal Plant Selection and Biodiversity Resilience in Far Western Nepal

Kunwar

Baral²,

Paudel

et al. 2016

PLoS ONE

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“…How these “two medicines” coexist remains a matter of debate. Evidence indicates that the relationship can be complementary [14, 17, 19–24] or competitive [25–27]. For example, Giovannini et.…”

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Medical pluralism and livestock health: ethnomedical and biomedical veterinary knowledge among East African agropastoralists

Caudell

Quinlan

et al. 2017

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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BackgroundHuman and animal health are deeply intertwined in livestock dependent areas. Livestock health contributes to food security and can influence human health through the transmission of zoonotic diseases. In low-income countries diagnosis and treatment of livestock diseases is often carried out by household members who draw upon both ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) and contemporary veterinary biomedicine (VB). Expertise in these knowledge bases, along with their coexistence, informs treatment and thus ultimately impacts animal and human health. The aim of the current study was to determine how socio-cultural and ecological differences within and between two livestock-keeping populations, the Maasai of northern Tanzania and Koore of southwest Ethiopia, impact expertise in EVM and VB and coexistence of the two knowledge bases.MethodsAn ethnoveterinary research project was conducted to examine dimensions of EVM and VB knowledge among the Maasai (N = 142 households) and the Koore (N = 100). Cultural consensus methods were used to quantify expertise and the level of agreement on EVM and VB knowledge. Ordinary least squares regression was used to model patterns of expertise and consensus across groups and to examine associations between knowledge and demographic/sociocultural attributes.ResultsMaasai and Koore informants displayed high consensus on EVM but only the Koore displayed consensus on VB knowledge. EVM expertise in the Koore varied across gender, herd size, and level of VB expertise. EVM expertise was highest in the Maasai but was only associated with age. The only factor associated with VB expertise was EVM expertise in the Koore.ConclusionsVariation in consensus and the correlates of expertise across the Maassi and the Koore are likely related to differences in the cultural transmission of EVM and VB knowledge. Transmission dynamics are established by the integration of livestock within the socioecological systems of the Maasai and Koore and culture historical experiences with livestock disease. Consideration of the nature and coexistence of EVM and VB provides insight into the capacity of groups to cope with disease outbreaks, pharmaceutical use patterns, and the development of community health interventions.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13002-017-0135-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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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

Salpeteur

et al. 2016

Ambio

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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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Medicinal Plant Knowledge Among Lay People in Five Eastern Tibet Villages

Cited by 28 publications

References 44 publications

Land-Use and Socioeconomic Change, Medicinal Plant Selection and Biodiversity Resilience in Far Western Nepal

Land-Use and Socioeconomic Change, Medicinal Plant Selection and Biodiversity Resilience in Far Western Nepal

Medical pluralism and livestock health: ethnomedical and biomedical veterinary knowledge among East African agropastoralists

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

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