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: Vertebrates used for medicinal purposes by members of the Nyishi and Galo tribes in Arunachal Pradesh (North-East India). | Chakravorty et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2011 7 13 http content 7 1 13 Tg- JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY 5R And ethnomedicine RESEARCH Open Access Vertebrates used for medicinal purposes by members of the Nyishi and Galo tribes in Arunachal Pradesh North-East India Jharna Chakravorty1 2 V Benno Meyer-Rochow2 and Sampat Ghosh1 Abstract Arunachal Pradesh the easternmost part of India is endowed with diverse natural resources and inhabited by a variety of ethnic groups that have developed skills to exploit the biotic resources of the region for food and medicines. Information on animals and animal parts as components of folk remedies used by local healers and village headmen of the Nyishi and Galo tribes in their respective West Siang and Subansiri districts were obtained through interviews and structured questionnaires. Of a total of 36 vertebrate species used in treatments of ailments and diseases mammals comprised 50 they were followed by birds 22 fishes 17 reptiles 8 and amphibians 3 . Approximately 20 common complaints of humans as well as foot and mouth disease of cattle were targets of zootherapies. Most commonly treated were fevers body aches and pains tuberculosis malaria wounds and burns typhoid smallpox dysentery and diarrhoea jaundice and early pregnancy pains. Very few domestic animal species . goat and cattle were used zootherapeutically. More frequently it was wild animals including endangered or protective species like hornbill pangolin clouded leopard tiger bear and wolf whose various parts were either used in folk remedies or as food. Some of the animal-based traditional medicines or animal parts were sold at local markets where they had to compete with modern western pharmaceuticals. To record document analyze and test the animal-derived local medicines before they become replaced by western products is one challenge to protect the already dwindling populations of certain wild animal species used as a resource .
