Diversidade e uso de recursos na etnoveterinária no Nordeste brasileiro

Abstract

The ethnovet is a practice that has been used since the emergence of man, the use of this practice has evolved over time, and, currently, it has been used by producers, farmers, and veterinarians, for the treatment of diseases , mainly in herd animals. This work is a bibliographic review on the resources (vegetable and animal) used in ethnovet Brazil's northeastern. To develop this research , a survey of data from the literature on the subject was carried out, using the following terms as keywords: ethnobotany and semiarid pdf, ethnobotany pdf, ethnobotany and pdf, ethnovet and semiarid pdf, plants and ethnovet and pdf, animals and ethnovet and pdf. After selecting the articles, monographs, theses, and dissertations published between the years 1990 to 2021, data from 37 studies were used in this review. In total, 160 species of plants and 55 species of animals were registered for ethnovet use. The most cited plants were: Aloe vera (L.) Burm.f. e Astronium urundeuva Engl. (12 quotes), Allium sativum L. and Ximenia americana L. (9), Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants (8), Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E.Br. ex Britton & P.Wilson (7), Anacardium occidentale L., Aspidosperma pyrifolium Mart. Zucc., Azadirachta indica A.Juss., Cymbopogon citratus (DC.) Stapf, and Sarcomphalus joazeiro (Mart.) Hauenschild (6). The plants species were most cited for use in healing , inflammation, cleaning parturition, chicken gogo and worms. The most cited animals species were: Tupinambis merianae (Duméril & Bibron) (6), Bos Taurus L., Gallus gallus L., Iguana iguana L., Nothura maculosa cearensis (Naumburg), Ovis aries L., Sus scrofa domesticus L. and Phrynops geoffroanus (Schweigger) (5), Crotalus durissus L. (4) . The animals were used in the treatment of wounds, snakebites, and caltrops. were also cited for worm, boil, tumor, scabies, weakness, poisoning, changing feathers, circulation, wound healing, respiratory disease in birds, eye problems, rheumatism, inflammation, dermatological diseases, and obstetric disorders. It is extremely important that further research be carried out on the subject, so that there is more clarification on the use of these resources