Los cambios de uso del ambiente y la medicina herbolaria. Estudio de caso en Yungas argentinas.

HILGERT, NORMA INÉS; GIL, GUILLERMO

Boletin Latinoamericano y del Carible de Plantas medicinales y aromáticas

Blacpma

Lugar: Santiago de Chile; Año: 2008 vol. 7 p. 130 - 140

0717 7917

We analized the characteristics of domestic medicine in two communities with different degrees of preservation of the transhumant way of life in the Yungas of Salta, Argentina. In the local health system four agents take part in decreasing importance: parents, rural doctors, healers and the official medical service. The use of medicinal plants is ordinary and widely spread. We considered the used plants, their relative importance and the environments in which they grow as well as inter and intra community comparative elements. An intermediate degree of similarity in the use of species was found in between transhumant groups and those who had abandoned such practice, differences were noticed not only in the species used but also in the use they give to the ones they share. The environments in which the settlements are established seem to have little influence in the group of plants used.