Plantas Usadas Para Combatir La Pandemia Del Covid-19 en Una Comunidad Indígena Urarina Del Departamento De Loreto, Perú

Villacorta, Margarita Del Aguila; Brañas, Manuel Martín; Fabiano, E.; Gómez, Ricardo Zárate; Vega, Juan José Palacios; Nuribe-Arahuata, Samuel; Mozombite-Ruíz, Wendy Darlene

doi:10.24841/fa.v30i1.542

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“…Studies in the Peruvian Amazon have documented the use of medicinal plants by other Indigenous groups during the COVID-19 pandemic (16)(17)(18). For example, a study among the Urarina of Loreto reported on the use of plants for preventing or combating COVID-19 symptoms or to heal or strengthen the spirit against COVID-19 and other diseases (18).…”

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Primary Health Care in the Peruvian Amazon during COVID-19: perspectives from Indigenous nurse technicians

Pesantes¹,

Palacios²,

Hewlett³

et al. 2023

Front. Trop. Dis

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IntroductionIndigenous peoples of the Amazon basin, in Peru and elsewhere, suffered disproportionately from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. In part, this was due to an initial lack of support by the Ministry of Health, who did not prioritize their care despite their vulnerable situation. Consequently, during the first wave of the pandemic, health professionals in public health facilities in Amazonian Indigenous communities had to handle the disease with limited information and resources. This article analyzes the actions carried out by Indigenous nurse technicians during the first wave of the pandemic. MethodsRecurrent semi-structured interviews with six Indigenous nurse technicians focusing on their measures toward disease prevention and caring during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Atalaya province, Ucayali region, in the Peruvian Amazon.ResultsNurse technicians worked closely with local authorities and volunteer health promotors. The limited resources they had at the health facilities, coupled with no training about how to treat COVID-19 symptoms led them to resort to their knowledge of traditional Indigenous medicine in combination with biomedical approaches, and support from Indigenous healers. Our analyses shows that this approach proved essential to alleviate symptoms and prevent complications and new infections.ConclusionsThe actions implemented by the Indigenous nurse technicians strongly contributed to the management of COVID-19 in their Indigenous communities, being both effective and culturally appropriate. Our data is in support of a health provision concept that bridges medical knowledge systems in contexts of diversity, avoiding a view on Indigenous health practices as antagonistic or in competition with biomedical practices provided by public health services.

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Primary Health Care in the Peruvian Amazon during COVID-19: perspectives from Indigenous nurse technicians

Pesantes¹,

Palacios²,

Hewlett³

et al. 2023

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“…The disruption of ethnographic fieldwork that seeks to investigate a specific social group’s ontological realities utterly conceals ecologically grounded relationships. It is worth remarking that, like most native Amazonians (see, e.g., for the Awajún ( Cárdenas Palacios & Reymundo Dámaso, 2021 ); for the Urarina ( Del Aguila Villacorta et al, 2021 ); for the Kichwa ( Oikonomakis, 2020 )), the Shuar are dealing with the pandemic through the aid of the vegetal world. As some informants told me, it seems that certain plants play a crucial role in curing coronavirus infection.…”

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The Ethnographic Quest in the Midst of COVID-19

Espinoza

2022

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has threatened ethnographic inquiry, undermining its quintessential characteristic. Participant observation, then, has been thoroughly dismembered by the radical measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus. This phenomenon, in short, has dragged anthropologists to a liminal state within which ethnography is paradoxically caught in an onto-epistemological unstable vortex. The question of being here and not there, during the pandemic, is epitomised in the instability of different spatio-temporal contexts that overlap through technological mediations. Reflecting on previous fieldwork experiences and current virtual inquiries with the Shuar of the Ecuadorian Amazon unfolds how COVID-19 has thoroughly reshaped how the author approaches subjects' socio-ecological settings. Against this background, the article argues that corporeal immersion remains a necessary condition for the anthropological scrutiny of multispecies relationalities amidst the challenging times of the Anthropocene. The article nevertheless demonstrates that the intellectual efforts to grasp the different material temporalities of virtual spaces embrace the ethical principles concerning the renunciation of fieldwork with vulnerable communities. Furthermore, a reflective and speculative stance is proposed to actualise the snapshots of faraway physicalities linking them to past embodied and multi-sensory experiences. It is ultimately theorised how these mnemonic devices operate as creative forms of inquiry that overcome the pandemic consequences, extra-stimulating our cognitive capabilities to reflect on prior and possible socio-material interactions.

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“…La pandemia ha representado un gran desafío, y frente a ello se ha corroborado la vigencia de los prácticas tradicionales respecto al uso de plantas medicinales 16 , las cuales fueron efectivas en la disminución de los síntomas generados en el sistema respiratorio a causa de la COVID-19 17,10 , así como en la prevención de la misma 16 . Además, de ser usadas para prevenir y tratar, también sirvieron en la sanación y fortalecimiento del espíritu frente a la COVID-19 15 .…”

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“…De este modo, plantas como el ajo, jengibre, eucalipto, la cebolla, manzanilla y borraja fueron usadas para prevenir y tratar síntomas de la COVID-19, por sus propiedades antibacterianas, antivirales, antiinflamatorias, expectorantes, antipiréticas y antitusígenas 10,12,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] , las cuales se administraron según la manifestación de los síntomas, el clima y la constitución corporal de la persona 23 .…”

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Creencias y prácticas culturales de uso de plantas medicinales en el contexto de la COVID-19 en pobladores de la Sierra y Selva Central de Perú

Ruiz Aquino,

Condori-Apaza,

Reyna-Arauco

et al. 2023

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Objetivo. Identificar los usos de plantas medicinales en el contexto de la COVID-19 por pobladores de la Sierra y Selva Central de Perú. Métodos. El enfoque fue cuantitativo, el tipo de estudio fue observacional, transversal; se consideró el muestreo no probabilístico de 595 sujetos voluntarios (pobladores), a quienes se les aplicó un cuestionario previamente validado y con fiabilidad. Las hipótesis fueron contrastadas con la prueba Z de Gauss para una proporción en muestras grandes con probabilidad de éxito = 1/10, al 95% de confianza estadística. Resultados. Los resultados indican que durante la primera y segunda ola de la pandemia COVID-19, los pobladores de la Sierra y Selva Central del Perú usaron plantas medicinales (eucalipto, jengibre, ajo, mático, limón, cebolla, manzanilla y borrajas) para prevenir y tratar los síntomas causados por el SARS-CoV-2, asi como a la percepción de la efectividad de sus propiedades antiinflamatorias y descongestionantes, expectorantes, antitusígenas y antivirales. Conclusiones. Las plantas medicinales como el eucalipto, jengibre, ajo, mático, limón, la cebolla, manzanilla y borrajas, fueron las más utilizadas como alternativa para prevenir y tratar síntomas de la COVID-19.

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Plantas Usadas Para Combatir La Pandemia Del Covid-19 en Una Comunidad Indígena Urarina Del Departamento De Loreto, Perú

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

Primary Health Care in the Peruvian Amazon during COVID-19: perspectives from Indigenous nurse technicians

Primary Health Care in the Peruvian Amazon during COVID-19: perspectives from Indigenous nurse technicians

The Ethnographic Quest in the Midst of COVID-19

Creencias y prácticas culturales de uso de plantas medicinales en el contexto de la COVID-19 en pobladores de la Sierra y Selva Central de Perú

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