Xki yoma' (our medicine) and xki tienda (patent medicine)-Interface between traditional and modern medicine among the Mazatecs of Oaxaca, Mexico

Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 383-399

  Giovannini, Peter ^a   Heinrich, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnobotany; Ethnopharmacy; Mazatecs; Oaxaca (M xico); Pharmaceutical anthropology; Self treatment; Traditional medicine

Indexed keywords

10 UNDECENOIC ACID; 666; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALBENDAZOLE; AMPICILLIN; AMPICILLINA; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANAXEN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ARTEMISIA EXTRACT; AVAPENA; BALSAMO; BEDOYECTA TRI; BICARBONATE; BICARBONATO; BISMUTH SALICYLATE; BUSCAPINA; BUTILHIOSCINA; CAFI ASPIRINA; CAMPHOR; CEDRELA ODORATA EXTRACT; CESTRUM NOCTURNUM EXTRACT; CHLOROQUINE; CHLORPHENIRAMINE MALEATE; CITRUS AURANTIFOLIA EXTRACT; COMEN; CONMEL; DESENFRIOL; DICLOFENAC; DIFENIDOL; DIMENHYDRINATE; DIPYRONE; ESSENCIA; GUAVA EXTRACT; IRGAPIRINA; KETOKONAZOL; MAGNOPIROT; MAKNO ATLANTIS; MANGIFERA INDICA EXTRACT; MEJORALES; MELO PLUS; MENTHA EXTRACT; MERTIOLATE; METILDOPA; METRONIDAZOLE; MICOTEX; NEOMELUBRINA; NEUROBION; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NOREPHEDRINE; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PALMIN; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLINA; PENPROCILINA; PICOT; PLANT EXTRACT; POUTERIA SAPOTA EXTRACT; PRODOLINA; RESPICIL; SALDE UVA; STREPTOMYCIN; SUERO; SUERO ORAL; TEPZCOUHUITE; TERRAMICINA; TESALON; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; TIAMINAL; TRIBEDOCE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VAPORUB; VERMUS; VESATICIL; VINO DE HIERRO; VITAMIN; VOMISIN; XL 3;

ADULT; AGRANULOCYTOSIS; ARISTOLOCHIA; ARTEMISIA; ARTICLE; CEDRELA ODORATA; CESTRUM NOCTURNUM; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFORMATION; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG UTILIZATION; ETHNOBOTANY; ETHNOPHARMACOLOGY; FEMALE; FEVER; FIELD STUDY; GASTRITIS; GUAVA; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INTERVIEW; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; LEUKOPENIA; LIME (FRUIT); LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANGO; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEDICINE; MENTHA; MEXICO; MODERN MEDICINE; NEPHROTOXICITY; OBSERVATION; OTALGIA; PAIN; POUTERIA SAPOTA; RURAL POPULATION; SELF CARE; STOMACH PAIN; TOOTH DISEASE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WOUND INFECTION;

HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MEDICINE, TRADITIONAL; MEXICO; NONPRESCRIPTION DRUGS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; SELF CARE;

ARISTOLOCHIA; YOMA;

EID: 58149267555     PISSN: 03788741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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