Antonio R L, Souza R M, Furlan M R, Pedro C R, Cassas F, Honda S, Rodrigues E
Center for Ethnobotanical and Ethnopharmacological Studies-Institute of Environmental Sciences, Chemical and Pharmaceutical, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil; Departament of Psychobiology, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil.
Center for Ethnobotanical and Ethnopharmacological Studies-Institute of Environmental Sciences, Chemical and Pharmaceutical, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil.
J Ethnopharmacol. 2015 Sep 15;173:183-90. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2015.07.026. Epub 2015 Jul 21.
Urban Ethnoveterinary should be further explored because of its value as it resists conventional medical care. In addition, the comparison between the resources used by Ethnoveterinary and Ethnopharmacology should be investigated in depth, increasing the availability of new bioactive potential in human and veterinary medicines. This project aimed to determine whether plants are used in the health care of dogs and/or cats in urban area and to compare its uses with other ethnoveterinary and ethnopharmacological data.
Three veterinary clinics from east area of São Paulo city were selected, in order to record the offering of plants to pets by their owners. Individual interviews were conducted from May to November 2012 and consisted of application of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. A literature search was performed to compare our findings with other ethnopharmacological and ethnoveterinarian data from the literature.
A total of 273 people were interviewed and 46 (16.84%) of them utilize medicinal plants for their pets. Most plant species are exclusively home grown (57.9%). The plants most cited were Plectranthus barbatus Andrews, Matricaria chamomilla L. and Foeniculum vulgare Mill. The most frequent route of administration, part utilized and mode of preparation was oral (80.35%), leaves (89.47%) and infusion (61.90%), respectively. From 19 cited plants, 14 (73.7%) are mentioned in ethnoveterinary literature, whereas 11 (57.9%) are used for the same purposes. All plants reported in our study have at least one common use with ethnopharmacology.
The survey provided evidence of ethnoveterinary use of medicinal plants for dogs and/or cats in urban area of São Paulo, complementarily with the official veterinary, and showed that the plants used in pets are also used in humans with the same purposes and routes of administration, as well as in other animals.
城市民族兽医学因其与传统医疗护理相悖的价值而应得到进一步探索。此外，应深入研究民族兽医学和民族药理学所使用资源之间的比较，以增加人类和兽用药物中新生物活性潜力的可用性。本项目旨在确定城市地区的狗和/或猫的医疗保健中是否使用了植物，并将其用途与其他民族兽医学和民族药理学数据进行比较。
选择了圣保罗市东部地区的三家兽医诊所，以记录宠物主人向宠物提供植物的情况。2012年5月至11月进行了个人访谈，包括应用半结构化访谈和问卷。进行了文献检索，以将我们的研究结果与文献中其他民族药理学和民族兽医学数据进行比较。
共采访了273人，其中46人（16.84%）为宠物使用药用植物。大多数植物物种是专门在家种植的（57.9%）。提及最多的植物是毛喉鞘蕊花、母菊和茴香。最常用的给药途径、使用部位和制备方式分别是口服（80.35%）、叶子（89.47%）和冲泡（61.90%）。在所列举的19种植物中，民族兽医学文献中提到了14种（73.7%），而其中11种（57.9%）用于相同目的。我们研究中报告的所有植物在民族药理学中至少有一种常见用途。
该调查提供了圣保罗市城区药用植物用于狗和/或猫的民族兽医学证据，与官方兽医医学相辅相成，并表明用于宠物的植物在人类中也用于相同目的和给药途径，以及在其他动物中也有使用。
