Healers
Mostrando 1-12 de 54 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. CURAS ILEGAIS E REPRESSÃO NO OITOCENTOS ESPÍRITO SANTENSE: OS CASOS DE TREM E OLEGÁRIO
Resumo O presente artigo objetiva tratar das práticas terapêuticas ilegais de dois curadores que atuaram no Espírito Santo do século XIX: Antônio Damazio Camilo, conhecido como “o Trem”,e Olegário dos Santos.Os processos-crime que atestam a repressão de suas práticas serão analisados a partir de alguns vetores fundamentais: como se davam os meca
Almanack. Publicado em: 16/09/2019
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2. Hansen’s disease deformities in a high risk area in Mozambique: A case study
Abstract INTRODUCTION: Hansen’s disease is no longer a public health problem in Mozambique, since 2008 (incidence under 1 / 10,000 inhabitants). The country is one of the most affected in the world and Nampula province’s Murrupula district (incidence 1.7 / 10,000) has a high deformity rate (22% in 2010). This study aimed to identify high deformity rate
Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.. Publicado em: 31/01/2019
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3. Sanadores inesperados: medicina china en la era de migración global (Lima y California, 1850-1930)
Abstract The massive waves of Chinese migrants arriving in California and Lima in the second half of the nineteenth century played a crucial role in expanding Chinese medicine in both settings. From the late 1860s on, herbalists expanded their healing system beyond their ethnic community, transforming Chinese medicine into one of the healing practices most w
Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos. Publicado em: 2018-03
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4. Conceptions and practices of an integrative treatment for substance use disorders involving Amazonian medicine: traditional healers’ perspectives
Objective: The harmful use of psychoactive substances represents one of today’s largest public health problems. Yet, in spite of its global relevance, current treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) is still not entirely successful. The purpose of this study was to investigate alternative treatments and conceptions from traditional Amazonian medicine
Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.. Publicado em: 18/12/2017
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5. Relative popularity level of medicinal plants in Talagang, Punjab Province, Pakistan
ABSTRACT This is the first ethnobotanical exploration with the aim to document the traditional medicinal usage of plants with the therapeutic values in Tehsil Talagang of Punjab province, Pakistan. The study shows the dependence of local people on medicinal plants in their daily life and provides practical evidence regarding the traditional usage of medicina
Rev. bras. farmacogn.. Publicado em: 2017-12
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6. Folk medicine, phytochemistry and pharmacological application of Piper marginatum
ABSTRACT Piper marginatum Jacq., Piperaceae, is a widely distributed Neotropical species abundant in the Caribbean, exhibiting a characteristic winged petiole and a heart-shaped leaf, its two vegetative landmarks for rapid identification. The species has been employed by traditional indigenous cultures for its reputed medicinal properties. The plant is most
Rev. bras. farmacogn.. Publicado em: 2016-12
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7. Epidemiology of snakebites in Kédougou region (eastern Senegal): comparison of various methods for assessment of incidence and mortality
Abstract Background Although considered a public health issue in Senegal, the actual incidence and mortality from snakebite are not known. In the present study, an epidemiological survey was carried out in Kédougou region, southeastern Senegal, where envenomations, particularly by Echisocellatus, are frequent and severe. Methods Three sources of data we
J. Venom. Anim. Toxins incl. Trop. Dis. Publicado em: 29/04/2016
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8. Ethnobotanical study of medicinal flora utilised by traditional healers in the management of sexually transmitted infections in Sesheke District, Western Province, Zambia
ABSTRACT Since many rural-poor Lozi people of Sesheke District (Western Province, Zambia) that suffer from sexually transmitted infections do not usually access public health facilities; they turn to traditional healers who administer remedies extracted from medicinal plants. However, the medicinal plants used for sexually transmitted infections and data on
Rev. bras. farmacogn.. Publicado em: 2016-04
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9. Quantitative traditional knowledge of medicinal plants used to treat livestock diseases from Kudavasal taluk of Thiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract Medicinal plants are treating and preventing various diseases. There is urgency in recording such data. This is first ethno botanical study in which statistical calculations about plants are done by Informant Consensus Factor method in the study area. The aim of the present study is to identify plants collected for medicinal purposes by the traditio
Rev. bras. farmacogn.. Publicado em: 2016-02
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10. Curadoras de semillas: entre empoderamiento y esencialismo estratégico
Women's networks of central-south Chile have taken the challenge of caring for native seeds against the homogenizing and predator agri-food regime. To do so, they declare themselves as reproducers of life, and privileged keepers of agrobiodiversity, from a strongly essentialist language. Is it really an empowering choice? What costs and possibilities does th
Rev. Estud. Fem.. Publicado em: 2015-05
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11. Medicinas tradicionales andinas y su despenalización: entrevista con Walter Álvarez Quispe
Walter Álvarez Quispe, a Kallawaya healer and biomedical practitioner specializing in general surgery and gynecology, presents the struggle of traditional and alternative healers to get their Andean medical systems depenalized between 1960 and 1990. Bolivia was the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to decriminalize traditional medicine before
Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos. Publicado em: 2014-12
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12. Sampling problems in Brazilian research: a critical evaluation of studies on medicinal plants
This work compiled Brazilian articles regarding medicinal plant use by local communities in order to analyze the most common sampling problems and if research characteristics can influence the presence of sampling irregularities. We focused on studies about medicinal plants that present a species-indications list and had a quantitative nature. The proportion
Rev. bras. farmacogn.. Publicado em: 2014-04