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KMID : 0608520100160010051
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Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
2010 Volume.16 No. 1 p.51 ~ p.68
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A Literature Study on the Traditional Herbal Medicine of Brazil
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Ahn Sang-Young
Park Sang-Young
Kwon Oh-Min
Ahn Sang-Woo
Han Chang-Hyun
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Abstract
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Hanyak, Korean herbal medicine is defined as the herbs understood and explained by traditional Korean medical theories. Considering this definition, there are broad prospective of every species being consilienced and utilized as Korean herbal medicine.
Most varied plant species are in tropical regions, and its of these regions posses its own particular traditional medicine. Brazil posses the most varied and abundant plant species and also characteristic traditional medicine, formed by the combination of native indians and immigrants from Africa and Europe. Brazilian traditional medicine are practices by ‘garrafeiros’ , ‘raizeiros’ , or ‘curandeiros’ and in Caatinga uses herbs in ritual ceremonies. But threatened by modernization, these knowledge may be vanished in a prompt time. Therefore we carried this research in the propose of understanding as well as preserving their traditional medical knowledge.
We revised publications about the medical plants and summarized 314 species of 94 families according to repetitive references. The most cited families were COMPOSITAE, LABIATAE, LEGUMINOSAE, RUBIACEAE, SOLANACEAE, UMBELLIFERAE, VERBENACEAE. Also cited major medical efficacies which further medical uses in combinations or modification of current traditional Korean medicine should be studied.
This study provides overall prospect of the plants resources of Brazil and their uses. It may serve in the consilience and understanding of varied traditional medicine by traditional Korean Medicine.
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KEYWORD
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Traditional Herbal Medicine, Traditional Korean Medicine, Brazil, Consilience
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