Origen y evolución histórica de la zoofarmacognosia : importancia y utilidad para la medicina veterinaria y ciencias afines
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2023
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El término Zoofarmacognosia se introdujo por primera vez en el ámbito científico en1987, como una rama multidisciplinar que estudiaba el comportamiento de automedicación de muchos grupos animales. Humanos y animales se han observado y han interactuado entre ellos desde tiempos prehistóricos, aprendiendo de forma recíproca sobre la naturaleza y el uso de sus recursos. El ser humano ha sido consciente desde hace mucho tiempo de que los animales utilizan sustancias específicas de ciertas formas cuando se sienten enfermos, y que este hábito les ayudaba a recuperarse y sanar. Gracias al desarrollo de la Zoofarmacognosia, estamos empezando a aprender y comprender los aspectos concretos de esta disciplina científica relativamente nueva, que se ocupa de investigar cómo los animales tratan la enfermedad a base de sustancias orgánicas e inorgánicas que encuentran en su medio ambiente. En algunos casos, incluso parecen hacer uso de plantas u otros recursos naturales como medicamentos de una forma muy similar a como lo hacemos los humanos, para tratar los mismos síntomas que nosotros. Aunque la Zoofarmacognosia es una ciencia joven, en nuestro estudio hemos buscado y analizado la relevancia de las menciones al comportamiento autocurativo de los animales en fuentes históricas, lo cual respalda la remarcable antigüedad de la atención y la preocupación del ser humano por entender este tipo de comportamiento...
The term Zoopharmacognosy was first introduced in 1987 as a multidisciplinary study ofthe self-medication behavior of many kinds of animals. Humans and non-human animals have been observing and interacting with each other since prehistoric times and learning together about nature and the use of natural resources. Humans have probably been aware for a long time that animals used specific substances in certain ways when they were sick and that this sometimes helped them to heal. Thanks to Zoopharmacognosy, we are beginning to learn more concrete aspects of this relatively new branch of science that deals with how animals treat disease with organic or inorganic substances that they find in their environment. In some cases, they even seem to use plants or other naturalitems as drugs in a very similar way to ourselves in order to treat the very same symptoms that we do. Although Zoopharmacognosy is a young science, in this study we searched for and analyzed the relevant early data and precedents in published papers and from historical sources that endorse the remarkable antiquity of the attention and concern of humankind for it...
The term Zoopharmacognosy was first introduced in 1987 as a multidisciplinary study ofthe self-medication behavior of many kinds of animals. Humans and non-human animals have been observing and interacting with each other since prehistoric times and learning together about nature and the use of natural resources. Humans have probably been aware for a long time that animals used specific substances in certain ways when they were sick and that this sometimes helped them to heal. Thanks to Zoopharmacognosy, we are beginning to learn more concrete aspects of this relatively new branch of science that deals with how animals treat disease with organic or inorganic substances that they find in their environment. In some cases, they even seem to use plants or other naturalitems as drugs in a very similar way to ourselves in order to treat the very same symptoms that we do. Although Zoopharmacognosy is a young science, in this study we searched for and analyzed the relevant early data and precedents in published papers and from historical sources that endorse the remarkable antiquity of the attention and concern of humankind for it...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Veterinaria, leída el 09-02-2023