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Báo cáo y học: " Herbal mixtures in traditional medicine in Northern Peru"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Herbal mixtures in traditional medicine in Northern Peru. | Bussmann et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2010 6 10 http www.ethnobiomed.eom content 6 1 10 JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY AND ETHNOMEDICINE RESEARCH Open Access Herbal mixtures in traditional medicine in Northern Peru Rainer W Bussmann Ashley Glenn Karen Meyer Alyse Kuhlman and AndrewTownesmith Abstract The investigation of plant mixtures used in traditional medicine in Northern Peru yielded a total of 974 herbal preparations used to treat 164 different afflictions. Psychosomatic disorders were with almost 30 of all recipes applied the most important afflictions treated. In most cases healers used only one or two mixtures to treat an illness. However up to 49 different preparations were used to treat the same disease. This indicates a high degree of experimentation. Altogether 330 plant species representing almost 65 of the medicinal flora used in the region were applied in mixtures. The overwhelming number of plant mixtures contained 2-7 different plant species although in the most extreme case 27 distinct species were included. The cluster analysis confirmed that mixtures used for applications like inflammations infections and blood purification as well as cough cold bronchitis or other respiratory disorders or urinary infection and kidney problems had similar floristic compositions. Mixtures used for nervous system disorders anxiety and heart problems often had a similar composition Introduction Traditional Medicine defined by the WHO as medical knowledge systems that developed over generations within various societies before the era of modern medicine including the health practices approaches knowledge and beliefs incorporating plant animal and mineralbased medicines spiritual therapies manual techniques and exercises applied singularly or in combination to treat diagnose and prevent illnesses or maintain wellbeing. 1 is used globally and has rapidly growing economic importance. In developing countries Traditional Medicine is often the only accessible