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Traditional Brazilian medicine (Portuguese: Medicina indígena) includes many native South American elements, and imported African ones. It is predominantly used in areas where indigenous groups and African descendants reside, like in the northeast coast, nearly all interior regions including Amazon regions, savannahs, rainforest, foothills, and Pantanal. According to Romulo R. N. Alves, "although Brazil's health system is public...use of traditional remedies and rituals provide an economical way of healing for much of the populace, but that also does not mean that wealthy Brazilians don't seek it out as well. Traditional medicine is a deep part of Brazilian heritage."

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  • Traditional Brazilian medicine (Portuguese: Medicina indígena) includes many native South American elements, and imported African ones. It is predominantly used in areas where indigenous groups and African descendants reside, like in the northeast coast, nearly all interior regions including Amazon regions, savannahs, rainforest, foothills, and Pantanal. According to Romulo R. N. Alves, "although Brazil's health system is public...use of traditional remedies and rituals provide an economical way of healing for much of the populace, but that also does not mean that wealthy Brazilians don't seek it out as well. Traditional medicine is a deep part of Brazilian heritage." The Aruak, Tupi, Yamomami, , Guarani and other Indians groups are among the native tribes that together with isolated descendants of Africans or Quilombola, and Indians integrated (Caboclo) that are known to almost exclusively practice traditional medicine. Among the plants include edible foods like the cashew, peppers, mangosteen and coconut, but often include inedible parts like the fruits, leaves, husk, bark. Neighboring nations like the Patamona of Guyana also use the cashew. There is growing interest in Brazilian medicine as the Amazon rainforest is the largest tropical forest in the world, and is home to immense biodiversity, including cures or treatments for many ailments. Japanese scientists have found strong anticancer activity in Brazilian traditional remedies. In one study in 1997 published in The American Journal of Chinese Medicine, only 122 species existing in Brazil could be related to the Chinese species (or 14.35% of the samples), which means the vast majority of species are not known to Chinese traditional medicine. Thousands and possibly millions of species remain unstudied and/or susceptible to extinction by habitat destruction. (en)
  • Medicina indígena corresponde ao comportamento orientado para obtenção e preservação da saúde através das práticas culturais dos povos indígenas. De acordo com Eduardo Estrella (1985), a medicina indígena apresenta os seguintes elementos estruturais: 1. * Aplicação de um conjunto de regras, modelos rituais, expressões ou ações que emergem historicamente da vida prática e da ideologia de um grupo social, e que conforma uma série de enunciados acerca da saúde e da doença. 2. * Prática esta que propicia o desenvolvimento de um “saber médico” onde se pode identificar: grupos de objetos ou enunciados, jogos de conceitos, séries de escolhas teóricas. Elemento que não constituem uma ciência, como uma estrutura idealmente definida e nem são tampouco conhecimentos amontoados procedentes de experiências, tradições ou descobrimentos unidos apenas pela identidade do sujeito que os gerou. São elementos a partir dos quais é possível construir proposições, desenvolver descrições mais ou menos exatas, elaborar teorias. 3. * Os enunciados desse saber médico se constituem sobre elementos empíricos, mágicos, míticos religiosos e racionais sendo especial a influência da ideológica exercida pela religião católica. 4. * Os enunciados, conceitos e práticas deste saber médico estão em boa parte, em oposição à ideologia dominante da formação social. (pt)
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  • Traditional Brazilian medicine (Portuguese: Medicina indígena) includes many native South American elements, and imported African ones. It is predominantly used in areas where indigenous groups and African descendants reside, like in the northeast coast, nearly all interior regions including Amazon regions, savannahs, rainforest, foothills, and Pantanal. According to Romulo R. N. Alves, "although Brazil's health system is public...use of traditional remedies and rituals provide an economical way of healing for much of the populace, but that also does not mean that wealthy Brazilians don't seek it out as well. Traditional medicine is a deep part of Brazilian heritage." (en)
  • Medicina indígena corresponde ao comportamento orientado para obtenção e preservação da saúde através das práticas culturais dos povos indígenas. De acordo com Eduardo Estrella (1985), a medicina indígena apresenta os seguintes elementos estruturais: (pt)
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  • Brazilian traditional medicine (en)
  • Medicina ameríndia (pt)
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