Substances, relationships and the omnipresence of the body: an overview of Ashéninka ethnomedicine (Western Amazonia)

Table 1 Ashéninka and Shipibo general ethnobotanical knowledge

Ethnic group	reference samples	reported name and/or use(s)	reported specific use(s)	medicinal use(s)¹
Ashéninka	601	98.7 %	97.0 %	78.0 %
Shipibo	258	87.6 %	86.1 %	71.5 %

(source: TSEMIM database)
¹ In the indigenous sense, that is to say including also a wide set of uses and effects that the Western approaches usually deem to be "magic" or "irrational", but that indigenous people do not really distinguish from the rest of medicine: shamanic hallucinogens, hunting magic, protection against harmful spirits, enhancing of children skills, seduction medicines, and so forth – see Table 3.

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