11 Citations
Therapeutic arthropods and other, largely terrestrial, folk-medicinally important invertebrates: a comparative survey and review
- BiologyJournal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
- 2017
Traditional healing methods involving hundreds of insect and other invertebrate species are reviewed. Some of the uses are based on the tenet of “similia similibus” (let likes be cured by likes), but…
Farmacopéias tradicionais : o papel das plantas medicinais na sua constituição, formação e manutenção em comunidades da Caatinga
- Philosophy
- 2012
Farmacopeias tradicionais sao ―instituicoes sociais‖ imprescindiveis para a manutencao das sociedades tradicionais. Sua construcao e manutencao sofrem influencias multifatoriais que variam desde…
IDENTITY OF A MEW WORLD
- Biology
- 2010
These experiments provide clear evidence of a psychoactive toad that could have been employed by Precolumbiae peoples of the Mesoamerica, and are the first documentation of a hallucinogenic agent from the animal kingdom.
TAXONOMIC IDENTITY OF " HALLUCINOGENIC " HARVESTER ANT lPogonomyrmex calijornicus )
- Environmental Science
- 2010
ABSTRACf.-The use of California harvester ants (fbgollomyrmex californiClls) for visionary and therapeutic ends was an important but poorly-documented tradition in native south-central California. In…
Development of skilled detection and extraction of embedded prey by wild brown capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella apella).
- BiologyJournal of comparative psychology
- 2010
The developmental sequence of skill acquisition goes counter to the preceding logical sequence of foraging process and it is suggested that searching components present greater challenges than handling components in extractive foraging.
Antibacterial and anticandidal screening of Tunisian Citrullus colocynthis Schrad. from Medenine.
- BiologyJournal of ethnopharmacology
- 2009
Daño de Myelobia sp. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) en plantaciones de guadua angustifolia Kunth en el departamento del Tolima
- Biology
- 2008
El dano producido por Myelobia sp. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) fue evaluado en dos lotes de
guadua angustifolia Kunth de tres anos de edad. El estudio se realizo en la hacienda La
Guaira, municipio de…
Acquisition of foraging competence in wild brown capuchins ( Cebus apella ), with special reference to conspecifics' foraging artefacts as an indirect social influence
- Biology
- 2008
This study provides an original view on how the gradual acquisition of foraging competence in brown capuchins is aided jointly by physical maturation and indirect social input that provides opportunities to practice appropriate foraging actions.
Bufi u~v~r~u~~ a potent hallucinogen of animal origin
- Biology
- 1994
The authors demonstrate that the venom of B. ulvarius, although known to be toxic when consumed orally, may be safely smoked and is powerfully psychoactive by that route of administration and provide clear evidence of a psychoactive toad that could have been employed by Precolumbian peoples of the New World.