Table 2 Questions that can guide the construction of methodological protocols in ethnobiological research within intermedicality scenarios

1

Which plants and pharmaceuticals are utilized for a specific disease?

2

How are these medications used? (This question can be complemented with questions provided in Box 6 of Ferreira Júnior et al. [40])

3

Is a system primarily used?

4

Is there a preference for any of the systems? Why?

5

Are there diseases that are exclusively treated using one of the systems? If so, what diseases are these? Why?

6

Are there diseases that have multiple treatments using both plants and medicines of biomedical origin? If so, what diseases are these? Why?

7

In cases where a specific system is used to treat a disease, is it due to the lack of alternatives from the other system, the progression of the disease with no observed cure, or another reason?

8

Does migration from one system to another occur during different stages of the disease?

9

Are there variations in treatments for chronic diseases?

10

Do different perceptions exist regarding the same disease?