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Folk medicine in Mandaguaçu municipality, Paraná State: an ethnobotanical approach - doi: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v34i4.9306
Provedor de dados: Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences
Autores: Furlanetto, Patrícia de Nazaré Cardoso; Unidade de Ensino Superior Ingá; Novakowski, Gisele Caroline; Universidade Estadual de Maringá/Unidade de Ensino Superior Ingá; Correa, Edmar Antônio; Unidade de Ensino Superior Ingá.
Herein, we present results from an ethnobotanical study (from February to August 2009) aiming the improvement and rationalization of medical practices, based on popular use of plants. We applied semi-structured interviews to 220 families from the urban area of Mandaguaçu municipality, Paraná  State. During the interviews we recorded the following information about the used plants: common name; plant part used; method of preparation; collection site; therapeutic indication, and known adverse effects. Additionally, we compared the data obtained in the interviews with the literature in order to identify contradiction in use and application. Among the interviewees, 90% use medicinal plants, obtained especially from the backyards. We recorded 44 ethnobotanical...
Tipo: Etnobotânica
Palavras-chave: 2.03.00.00-0 medicinal plants; Folk knowledge; Toxicity; Adverse effects Botânica.
Ano: 2012
URL: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/article/view/9306

Cricket singing means rain: semiotic meaning of insects in the district of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, northeastern Brazil
Provedor de dados: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Autores: Costa Neto,Eraldo M.
This paper deals with the semiotic meanings which are given both to the appearance and/or behavior of insect species according to the ethnoentomological knowledge of the inhabitants of the village of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, Brazil. Data were collected from February to May 2001 by performing open-ended, recorded interviews with nine men and twenty-five women, whose ages ranged from 19 to 82 years old. Data were analyzed by using the union model, which involves considering all available information on the surveyed subject. Twelve kinds of insects were associated with both beneficial and harmful events, as well as with the indication of changing weather. The way local people perceive and interpret the appearance and/or behavior of certain species of...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Bioindicator; Ethnoentomology; Folk knowledge; Semiotic meaning.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652006000100007