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Intermedicality in official health contexts: Use of medicinal plants by the inhabitants of a city in Argentinean Patagonia

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Title Intermedicality in official health contexts: Use of medicinal plants by the inhabitants of a city in Argentinean Patagonia
 
Creator Ferreras, Irene
Molares, Soledad
Hechem, Viviana
 
Subject Biomedicine
Folk medicine
Mapuche pharmacopeia
Primary health care
 
Description 145-156
The aim of this study was to explore how the use of medicinal plants and biomedical resources varies over time among
patients attending primary health-care centers in Esquel city (Argentinean Patagonia) as related to socio-cultural and
environmental variables. Interviews were carried out with 79 patients and information was analyzed using ethnobotanical
techniques. Seventy-six percent of informants said they use medicinal plants and drugs in a complementary manner. They
were mostly youths of urban origin. Gastrointestinal disorders are mostly treated through this strategy, exotic plants being
the most commonly used ones, together with analgesics and synthetic digestives. Conversely, elderly people of rural origin
kept cultural rules that restrict the combined use of plants and drugs to some etiologies. These informants claim to use drugs
to treat complex diseases such as diabetes, thyroidism, etc. Health centers are intermedicality spaces where rural and urban
memories reactivate, and where therapeutic responses diversify among social segments.
 
Date 2022-02-15T07:22:23Z
2022-02-15T07:22:23Z
2022-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/59152
 
Language en
 
Relation Int. Cl.22: A61K 36/00, A61K 45/00
 
Publisher CSIR-NIScPR
 
Source IJTK Vol.21(1) [January 2022]