Table 3 Healthcare and childbirth attention that involves animals, in the TCV and surrounding regions
Health issue | Cultural group | Animal Class | Animal Family | Number of species | Total number of species | Percentage of the total number of medicinal species (n = 23) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Giving birth | Nahua | Mammalia | Dasypodidae Gray, 1821, Didelphidae Gray, 1821, Tayassuidae Palmer, 1897, Erethizontidae Bonaparte, 1845, Cervidae Goldfuss, 1820 | 5 | 6 | 26.08 |
Cuicatec | Mammalia | Dasypodidae, Didelphidae | 2 | |||
Aves | Psittacidae Rafinesque, 1815 | 1 | ||||
Cancer | Nahua | Reptilia | Elapidae Boié, 1827, Viperidae Oppel, 1811 | 3 | 5 | 21.73 |
Cuicatec | Reptilia | Viperidae | 1 | |||
Mestizo | Aves | Cuculidae Leach, 1820, Corvidae Leach, 1820 | 2 | |||
Dermatological | Nahua | Mammalia | Dasypodidae | 1 | 4 | 17.39 |
Insecta | Hepialidae Stephens, 1829 | 1 | ||||
Reptilia | Elapidae | 1 | ||||
Cuicatec | Mammalia | Mephitidae Bonaparte, 1845 | 1 | |||
Epilepsy | Cuicatec | Reptilia | Viperidae | 1 | 4 | 17.39 |
Mammalia | Mephitidae | 1 | ||||
Aves | Trochilidae Vigors, 1825 | 1 | ||||
Mestizo | Aves | Cuculidae | 1 | |||
Antiophidic | Nahua | Reptilia | Elapidae, Viperidae | 3 | 3 | 13.04 |
Whooping cough | Nahua | Mammalia | Geomyidae Bonaparte, 1845 | 1 | 2 | 8.69 |
Aves | Trochilidae | 1 | ||||
Hearth | Mestizo | Aves | Cuculidae, Trochilidae | 2 | ||
Cultural ilnesses | Cuicatec | Reptilia | Viperidae | 1 | 2 | 8.69 |
Mestizo | Aves | Trochilidae | 1 | |||
Joint pain/inflammation and rheumatism | Nahua | Mammalia | Canidae Fischer, 1817 | 1 | 1 | 4.34 |
Ixcatec | Mammalia | Canidae | 1 | |||
Pain | Ixcatec | Insecta | Tenebrionidae Latreille, 1802 | 1 | 1 | 4.34 |
Antidepressant | Cuicatec | Insecta | Formicidae Latreille, 1802 | 1 | 1 | 4.34 |
Allergies | Cuicatec | Mammalia | Cervidae | 1 | 1 | 4.34 |