Volume 9, Issue 3, August 2007, Pages 64-69
The use of medicinal plants in veterinary medicine: Rescuing the popular knowledge (Article)
[A utilização de plantas medicinais em medicina veterinária: Um resgate do saber popular]
Abstract
This research, developed in the municipality of Patos, Paraíba State, Brazil, aimed at the investigation into the popular knowledge and the utilization of medicinal plants in the treatment of diseases in the domestic animals. The sample consisted of forty interviewees, randomly selected, who have used phytotherapies in routine practices. Questionnaires were employed for building a database. The results revealed that the knowledge about the advantages over of the phytotherapics utilization are the followings: natural, effective, and healthy nature of it, besides its low cost. The utilization of the medicinal plants against diseases constitutes a vast research field, which might generate change of habits, the man's re-approach to the nature and the valorisation and rescue of the popular knowledge.
Author keywords
Alternative medicine; Ethnobotany; Medicinal plants; Phytotherapic
Indexed keywords
EMTREE drug terms: Acanthospermum hispidum extract; alium cepa extract; Aloe vera extract; Alpinia speciosa extract; anacardic acid; Anadenathena macrocarpa extract; Calanitha officinalis extract; Capparis flexuosa extract; Cedrela adorata extract; Cucurbita pepo extract; Cymbopogon citratus extract; garlic extract; ginger extract;Heliotropium indicum extract; hyptis suaveolens extract; Lippia alba extract; Luffa operculata extract; Malva sylvestris extract; Mimosa temiflora extract; myracrodruon urundeuva extract; Operculina alata extract; Peumus boldus extract; plant extract; Prosopis juriflora extract; Pseudobombax marginatum extract; psidium guajava extract; Solanum paniculatum extract; unclassified drug; unindexed drug; Ximenia americana extract; zea mays extract
EMTREE medical terms: Acanthospermum hispidum; alium cepa; Aloe vera; Alpinia speciosa; alternative medicine; Anadenathena macrocarpa; article; Brazil; Calanitha officinalis; Capparis flexuosa; cashew nut; Cedrela adorata; Cymbopogon citratus; data base; domestic animal; drug cost; drug utilization; ethnobotany; garlic; ginger; guava; heliotropium indicum; Hyptis suaveolens; Lippia; luffa operculata; maize; malva sylvestris; medical research; medicinal plant; methodology; Mimosa temiflora; Myracrodruon urundeuva; nonhuman; Operculina alata; Peumus boldus; phytotherapy; Prosopis juriflora; Pseudobombax marginatum; questionnaire; randomization; Solanum paniculatum; squash; veterinary medicine; Ximenia americana
Species Index: Animalia
Chemicals and CAS Registry Numbers: anacardic acid, 11034-77-8
ISSN: 15160572 CODEN: RBPMFSource Type: Journal Original language: Portuguese
Document Type: Article
