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Table 1 The 20 disease categories of the World Health Organization[45]

From: Medicinal use of fauna by a traditional community in the Brazilian Amazonia

International Statistical Classification ofDiseases and Related HealthProblems (ICD, 2007)

Cited diseases

1

Certain infectious and parasitics diseases

Erysipelas

Hair lice*

2

Neoplasms

Tumor

3

Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism

none

4

Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases

Diabetes*

Lack of appetite in children

5

Mental and behavioral disorders

none

6

Diseases of the nervous system

Spasm in children

7

Diseases of the eye and adnexa

Headache

7

Diseases of the ear and mastoid process

Conjunctivitis*

8

Diseases of the circulatory system

Earache

9

Diseases of the respiratory system

Stroke

10

 

Pneumonia

Asthma

Cold

11

Diseases of the digestive system

Indigestion

Toothache*

12

Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue

Callus on feet*

13

Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue

Muscular pain

Rheumatism

Child with walking difficulties

Hernia

14

Diseases of the genitourinary system

Menstrual pain

Male sexual incapacity

15

Pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium

none

16

Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period

none

17

Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities

none

18

Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified

Hiccup*

Bleeding

19

Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes

Snakebite

Ray stinging*

Wounds

Extraction of wood and thorn

20

External causes of morbidity and mortality

none

  1. Legend: In the “Cited Diseases” column it is listed the 28 diseases and other health problems that the “Riozinho do Anfrísio” informants claim to be treatable by animal species. The diseases cited exclusively in participant observations are signaled with.