title: The rainbow hurts my skin: medicinal concepts and plants uses among the Yanesha (Amuesha), an Amazonian Peruvian ethnic group.
abstract: Yanesha, also called Amuesha, is a group of amerindian people, belonging to the arawak linguistic family. They dwell in the central region of Peru, at the oriental foothills of the Andes. Their territory covers a large range of ecological settings, and communities spread from 1800 down to 400 m/snm. The Yanesha culture is vivid to this day, and people strongly rely on traditional medicine in their everyday life. An exhaustive ethnopharmacological survey leads us to collect 249 species with medicinal uses. An overview of the Yanesha pharmacopoeia, linked with ethnomedicinal practices is presented in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Institut Français d'Etudes Andines IMIFRE 17/MAEE Av Arequipa n degrees 4595, Miraflores, Lima 18, Peru.
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Valadeau
authors.forename: Joaquina Alban
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Castillo
authors.forename: Michel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sauvain
authors.forename: Augusto Francis
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Lores
authors.forename: Geneviève
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bourdy
mesh_terms: D018070:Biological Specimen Banks; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D004339:Drug Compounding / Q000379:methods; D020834:Ethnopharmacology / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American; D008297:Male; D008519:Medicine, Traditional / Q000379:methods*; D010568:Peru; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic; D008517:Phytotherapy; D010936:Plant Extracts / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018514:Plant Structures; D010946:Plants, Medicinal; D019423:Shamanism; D026443:Spiritual Therapies
chemical_list: D010936:Plant Extracts