[Folk medicine using animals in the Chapada Diamantina: incidental medicine?].
This study examines the traditional therapeutic use of animals or parts of animals by an Afro Brazilian population living in the Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil. The investigation was conducted over a period of eight months and consisted of open- and semi-structured interviews, photographic documentation and identification of species. Besides presenting a list of animal products and their respective use, we seek to stimulate a discussion about the possible existence of a rational basis for the belief in the therapeutic or prophylactic potential of the animal products used in the traditional medicine of Brazilian populations.
Moura
Flávia de Barros Prado
Fde B
ICBS, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, AL, 57051-090. flavia.moura@pesquisador.cnpq.br
Marques
José Geraldo Wanderley
JG
D000818:Animals; D044383:Black People; D001938:Brazil; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional