From: Zootherapeutics utilized by residents of the community Poço Dantas, Crato-CE, Brazil
Insects | ||||
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Family/species/local name | Number of citations | Use-value | Part used | Disease (or illness) |
Gryllidae – "Cricket" or "grilo" | 2 | 0.02 | Leg (1) | Urinary infections |
Apidae Melipona scutellaris (Latreille, 1811) – "Stingless bee" or "uruçú" | 6 | 0.08 | Wax and honey (2) | Healing, sore throat, coughs and asthma |
Melipona subnitida (Ducke, 1910) – "Stingless bee" or "jandaíra" | 4 | 0.05 | Honey (2) | Asthma, sore throat and coughs |
Partamona cupira (Smith, 1863) – "Stingless bee" or "cupira" | 23 | 0.31 | Wax (2) and honey (3) | Stomach ache, ear aches, healing, sore throat, coughs, asthma and expectorant |
Apis mellifera (Linnaeus, 1758) – "Honey bee" or "abelha italiana" | 27 | 0.37 | Honey (3) | Coughs, flu, asthma, sore throat and healing |
Trigona spinipes (Fabricius, 1793) – "Stingless bee" or "arapuá" | 4 | 0.05 | Honey (3) | Coughs and ear aches |
Termitidae "Termite" or "cupim" | 2 | 0.02 | Whole animal (4) | Asthma |
Fishes | ||||
Erythrinidae | ||||
Hoplias malabaricus (Bloch, 1794) – "Fish" or "traíra" | 15 | 0.2 | Fat and secretion epidermal (2) | Ear aches, inflammations, cholesterol, sore throat, healing, inflammations of umbilical cord of newborn baby, bruises and alcoholism |
Prochilodontidae | ||||
Prochilodus nigricans Agassiz, 1929 – "Black prochilodus" or "curimatã" | 9 | 0.12 | Fat (2) | Inflammations and cholesterol |
Amphibians | ||||
Bufonidae | ||||
Rhinella jimi (Stevaux, 2002) – "Cururu toad" or "sapo cururu" | 5 | 0.06 | Fat (2) | Bruises, inflammations, arthritis, treatment of injured animals |
Leptodactylidae | ||||
Leptodactylus labyrinthicus (Spix 1824) – "South american pepper frog" or "gia" | 2 | 0.02 | Fat (2) | Sore throat |
Reptiles | ||||
Chelidae | ||||
Phrynops tuberosus (Peters, 1870) – "Side-necked turtle" or "cágado" | 31 | 0.43 | Fat (3), shell (4) and blood (2) | Sore throat, rheumatism, inflammations, fissures on feet, back ache, changes of skin, asthma, coughs, (3, 4) varices (2) |
Viperidae | ||||
Crotalus durissus (Linnaeus, 1758) – "Rattle snake" or "cascavel" | 4 | 0.05 | Fat (2) | Snake bites, bruises, rheumatism, inflammations, arthritis, alleviate tremor, treatment of injured animals |
Iguanidae | ||||
Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758) – "Common iguana" or "camaleão" | 10 | 0.13 | Fat (2) | Ear aches, sore throat and inflammations |
Teiidae | ||||
Tupinambis merianae (Duméril and Bibron, 1839) – "Teju lizard" or "tiú" | 66 | 0.91 | Fat (2) and tail (5) | Sore throat, coughs, asthma, headache, bruises, inflammations, rheumatism, flu, bronchitis, arthritis, arthrosis, back ache, toothache, healing, fissures on feet (2) deafness and ear aches (2, 5) |
Birds | ||||
Cathartidae | ||||
Coragyps atratus (Bechstein, 1793)- "Black vulture" or "urubu" | 6 | 0.08 | Meat and whole animal (6) | Asthma, coughs and alcoholism |
Phasianidae | ||||
Gallus domesticus Linnaeus, 1758 -"Chicken" or "galinha" | 49 | 0.68 | Fat (3), esophagus and stomach (7) | Sore throat, coughs, inflammations, pneumonia, ear aches, toothache, nasal congestion, stomach ache (3) e diabetes (7) |
Pavo cristatus Linnaeus, 1758 – "Pea-cock" or "pavão" | 8 | 0.11 | Feather (4) | Asthma |
Hirundinidae | ||||
Progne chalybea (Gmelin, 1789) – "Gray-breasted martin" or "andorinha" | 1 | 0.01 | Whole animal (6) | Alcoholism |
Cuculidae | ||||
Crotophaga ani Linnaeus, 1758 – "Smooth-billed ani" or "anu" | 2 | 0.02 | Feather (4) | Asthma |
Mammals | ||||
Canidae | ||||
Cerdocyon thous (Linnaeus, 1766) -"Fox" or "raposa" | 3 | 0.04 | Fat (3) and liver (7) | Rheumatism and bronchitis |
Felidae | ||||
Felis silvestris Schereber, 1775 – "Cat" or "gato" | 2 | 0.02 | Fur (2) | Healing |
Dasyponidae | ||||
Euphractus sexcinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) – "Armadillo" or "tatu-peba" | 6 | 0.08 | Fat (2), meat (6) and tail (5) | Rheumatism, burns, inflammations, pain in bones (2, 6), ear aches and deafness (5) |
Dasypus novemcinctus, Linnaeus,1758 – "Nine-banded armadillo" or "tatu-galinha" | 2 | 0.02 | Fat (2), meat (6) and tail (5) | Rheumatism, burns, inflammations, pain in bones (2, 6), ear aches and deafness (5) |
Bovidae | ||||
Ovis aries (Linnaeus, 1758)- "Sheep" or "carneiro" | 19 | 0.26 | Fat (2) | Fissures on feet, rheumatism, arthritis, back ache, ear aches and inflammations |
Bos taurus (Linnaeus, 1758) – "Domestic cattle" or "boi" | 5 | 0.06 | Milk (8) | Inflammations, sore throat and arthritis |
Capra hircus (Linnaeus, 1758) – "Domestic goat" or "bode" | 2 | 0.02 | Milk (8) | Coughs and bronchitis |
Suidae | ||||
Sus scrofa (Linnaeus, 1758) – "Pig" or "porco" | 1 | 0.01 | Testicle (4) | Bronchitis |
Equidae | ||||
Equus asinus Linnaeus, 1758 – "Asino" or "jumento" | 7 | 0.09 | Milk (8) | Coughs |