tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Dietary restrictions in healing among speakers of Iquito, an endangered language of the Peruvian Amazo"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Dietary restrictions in healing among speakers of Iquito, an endangered language of the Peruvian Amazon. | Jernigan Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2011 7 20 http content 7 1 20 7k JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY 5R And ethnomedicine RESEARCH Open Access Dietary restrictions in healing among speakers of Iquito an endangered language of the Peruvian Amazon Kevin A Jernigan Abstract Background Ethnobotanical research was carried out with speakers of Iquito a critically endangered Amazonian language of the Zaparoan family. The study focused on the concept of dieting siyan ni in Iquito a practice involving prohibitions considered necessary to the healing process. These restrictions include 1 foods and activities that can exacerbate illness 2 environmental influences that conflict with some methods of healing . steam baths or enemas and 3 foods and activities forbidden by the spirits of certain powerful medicinal plants. The study tested the following hypotheses H1 - Each restriction will correlate with specific elements in illness explanatory models and H2 - Illnesses whose explanatory models have personalistic elements will show a greater number and variety of restrictions than those based on naturalistic reasoning. Methods The work was carried out in 2009 and 2010 in the Alto Nanay region of Peru. In structured interviews informants gave explanatory models for illness categories including etiologies pathophysiologies treatments and dietary restrictions necessary for 49 illnesses. Seventeen botanical vouchers for species said to have powerful spirits that require diets were also collected. Results All restrictions found correspond to some aspect of illness explanatory models. Thirty-five percent match up with specific illness etiologies 53 correspond to particular pathophysiologies 18 correspond with overall seriousness of the illness and 18 are only found with particular forms of treatment. Diets based on personalistic reasoning have a significantly higher average number of restrictions than those based on naturalistic reasoning. Conclusions .