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标题：Environmental influence on the choice of medicinal animals: a case study from northeastern Brazil
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作者：Iamara da Silva Policarpo Brito ; Anna Karolina Martins Borges ; Sérgio de Faria Lopes 等
期刊名称：Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
印刷版ISSN：1746-4269
电子版ISSN：1746-4269
出版年度：2019
卷号：15
期号：1
页码：1-10
DOI：10.1186/s13002-019-0337-9
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：Animals from various taxonomic groups are commonly used in folk medicine, and their selection seems to be directly linked to their availability and accessibility. In the present study, we analyzed the use of animals as a source of folk medicines in a community in northeastern Brazil with access to aquatic and terrestrial animals. We hypothesize that the medicinal fauna is well represented by species of both habitat types. For the collection of information, semi-structured questionnaires were applied to local residents. We recorded the use of 22 animals used as medicinal resources in the community, distributed among eight taxonomic categories, which are used to treat 38 types of diseases. Of the therapeutic animals, 14 species are terrestrial and 8 species can be considered aquatic occurring in marine or estuarine habitats. Our data confirm the tendency of human communities to use affordable medicinal animals in local ecosystems. We also found that medicinal use represents a strategy of optimizing the use of resources and is related to the economic, historical, social, cultural, and ecological contexts in which the community is inserted.
关键词：Folk medicine ; Zootherapy ; Medicinal animals