Animal-based medicines used in ethnoveterinary practices in the semi-arid region of Northeastern Brazil
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Animal-based medicines used in ethnoveterinary practices in the semi-arid region of Northeastern Brazil.
This work documents the zootherapeutic practices in Ethnoveterinary medicine (EVM) of Pedra Lavrada (6°45'S, 36°28'W), Northeastern Brazil. We interviewed 23 people (22 men and 1 woman), who provided information on animal species used as remedies, body parts used to prepare the remedies, and illnesses for which the remedies were prescribed. We calculated the use-value to determine the most impo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1678-2690,0001-3765
DOI: 10.1590/s0001-37652012005000038