Zootherapy goes to town: The use of animal-based remedies in urban areas of NE and N Brazil

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 541-555

  Alves, Rômulo R N ^a   Rosa, Ierecê L ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Traditional medicines; Zootherapy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MEDICINAL PRODUCT; NATURAL PRODUCTS AND THEIR SYNTHETIC DERIVATIVES; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ALLERGY; AMEBIASIS; ANEMIA; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BACKACHE; BRAZIL; BRONCHITIS; BURN; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CATARACT; CELLULITIS; CHELICERATA; CHILOPODA; COELENTERATE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVULSION; COUGHING; CRUSTACEA; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FUNCTION DISORDER; EPILEPSY; ERYSIPELAS; FEMALE; FEVER; FISH; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEMORRHOID; HERNIA; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INFLAMMATION; INFLUENZA; INSECT; LIVER DISEASE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMAL; MOLLUSC; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE STRAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; MYTILIDAE; NEUROPATHY; NOSE CONGESTION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OTALGIA; PAIN; PHARYNGITIS; PROSTATE DISEASE; PRURITUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPTILE; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SINUSITIS; SOCIAL CLASS; SORE THROAT; SWELLING; SYNOVITIS; THROMBOSIS; TONSILLITIS; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TUBERCULOSIS; TUMOR; ULCER; VERONICELLIDAE; WRINKLE; ZOOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOTHERAPY;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PISCES; REPTILIA;

EID: 34548381618     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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