Plants, diseases and social actors involved in traditional medicine of Agua Escondida and Nevado mountains, Mendoza (Argentina)
Muiño, Walter A.; Lucía Fernández. 2015. “Plants, diseases and social actors involved in traditional medicine of Agua Escondida and Nevado mountains, Mendoza (Argentina)”. Lilloa 52 (1). In this paper, the traditional medicine of a rural community in southern Mendoza, Argentina was studied through a field research methodology based on open interviews with direct social actors with whom plants were also collected. Information on the plant species used (a total of 84 species), their therapeutic purpose and methods of administration as well as on the most common ailments from the perspective of the people and the attitude they adopt when the disease manifests was compiled. Based on these practices and decisions the role of other social actors, such as health professionals and rangers agents, is also reported. It also reports on three species (Hysterionica glaucifolia, Trichocline cineraria and T. dealbata) whose monitoring and control should be considered in terms of their limited distribution and restricted geographical endemism condition. The results of this work are a contribution to the knowledge of rural communities and botany in arid lands of Argentina
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Fundación Miguel Lillo
2015
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| Online Access: | http://www.lillo.org.ar/journals/index.php/lilloa/article/view/339 |
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| Summary: | Muiño, Walter A.; Lucía Fernández. 2015. “Plants, diseases and social actors involved in traditional medicine of Agua Escondida and Nevado mountains, Mendoza (Argentina)”. Lilloa 52 (1). In this paper, the traditional medicine of a rural community in southern Mendoza, Argentina was studied through a field research methodology based on open interviews with direct social actors with whom plants were also collected. Information on the plant species used (a total of 84 species), their therapeutic purpose and methods of administration as well as on the most common ailments from the perspective of the people and the attitude they adopt when the disease manifests was compiled. Based on these practices and decisions the role of other social actors, such as health professionals and rangers agents, is also reported. It also reports on three species (Hysterionica glaucifolia, Trichocline cineraria and T. dealbata) whose monitoring and control should be considered in terms of their limited distribution and restricted geographical endemism condition. The results of this work are a contribution to the knowledge of rural communities and botany in arid lands of Argentina |
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