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Comparative Medical Ethnobotany of the Senegalese Community Living in Turin (Northwestern Italy) and in Adeane (Southern Senegal)
Joint Authors
Quave, Cassandra L.
Ellena, Rachele
Pieroni, Andrea
Source
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Issue
Vol. 2012, Issue 2012 (31 Dec. 2012), pp.1-30, 30 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2012-04-09
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
30
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
A medico-ethnobotanical survey was conducted among the Senegalese migrant communities of Turin (Piedmont, NW Italy) and their peers living in Adeane (Casamance, Southern Senegal), both among healers and laypeople.
Through 27 in-depth interviews, 71 medicinal plant taxa were recorded and identified in Adeane and 41 in Turin, for a total of 315 different folk remedies recorded in Senegal and 62 in Turin.
The large majority of the medicinal plants recorded among Senegalese migrants in Turin were also used in their country of origin.
These findings demonstrate the resilience of home remedies among migrants and consequently the role they should have in shaping public health policies devoted to migrant groups in Western Countries, which seek to seriously take into account culturally sensitive approaches, that is, emic health-seeking strategies.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Ellena, Rachele& Quave, Cassandra L.& Pieroni, Andrea. 2012. Comparative Medical Ethnobotany of the Senegalese Community Living in Turin (Northwestern Italy) and in Adeane (Southern Senegal). Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-30.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-992446
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ellena, Rachele…[et al.]. Comparative Medical Ethnobotany of the Senegalese Community Living in Turin (Northwestern Italy) and in Adeane (Southern Senegal). Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2012 (2012), pp.1-30.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-992446
American Medical Association (AMA)
Ellena, Rachele& Quave, Cassandra L.& Pieroni, Andrea. Comparative Medical Ethnobotany of the Senegalese Community Living in Turin (Northwestern Italy) and in Adeane (Southern Senegal). Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2012. Vol. 2012, no. 2012, pp.1-30.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-992446
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-992446