Department of Pharmacy, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia.
Department of Sociology, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia.
J Complement Integr Med. 2022 May 10;19(3):543-551. doi: 10.1515/jcim-2022-0011. eCollection 2022 Sep 1.
Respiratory diseases affect more than one billion people worldwide. Although medicinal animals have huge importance in primary health care, limited effort applied so far been in Ethiopia to properly identify, document, and conserve these animals and the related knowledge. This systematic review was aimed to identify the medicinal animals and document reports on the use of medicinal animals for the management of respiratory disorders.
Both published and unpublished articles on the ethnozoological use of medicinal animals were searched using electronic database (Science Direct, Pub Med, Google Scholar, Scopus, hinari, and research gate) and institutional repositories. Different keywords were used separately and in combination using Boolean operators "OR" or "AND" as well as medical subject heading [MeSH] terms. Studies that did not address respiratory disorders were excluded. Data were extracted using Microsoft excel spread sheet.
Among 211 articles obtained from database searches, nine articles were eligible and included in the review. Thirty two medicinal animals were reported for treatment of respiratory disorders. Mammals were the most commonly (43.8%) used medicinal animals. Meat was reported as the most commonly (22.6%) used medicinal remedy.
Most of the medicinal remedies were obtained from mammals and administered orally. As the majority of the medicinal animals were obtained from wild sources, due attention should be given to conserve them. Besides, this traditional medicinal knowledge should be integrated to modern medicine to investigate the acute and chronic toxicity profile and efficacy of these remedies to identify potential lead compounds to modern drugs.
呼吸疾病影响着全球超过 10 亿人。尽管药用动物在初级卫生保健中具有重要意义，但迄今为止，在埃塞俄比亚，人们很少努力对这些动物及其相关知识进行正确的识别、记录和保护。本系统评价旨在确定药用动物，并记录有关药用动物用于治疗呼吸疾病的报告。
使用电子数据库（Science Direct、Pub Med、Google Scholar、Scopus、hinari 和 research gate）和机构知识库，搜索有关药用动物的民族动物学用途的已发表和未发表的文章。分别使用不同的关键词，并使用布尔运算符“OR”或“AND”以及医学主题词 [MeSH] 术语组合使用。不涉及呼吸障碍的研究被排除在外。使用 Microsoft excel 电子表格提取数据。
从数据库搜索中获得的 211 篇文章中，有 9 篇符合条件并纳入了综述。报告了 32 种药用动物用于治疗呼吸疾病。哺乳动物是最常用的（43.8%）药用动物。肉类被报道为最常用的（22.6%）药用疗法。
大多数药用疗法是从哺乳动物身上获得并口服的。由于大多数药用动物都来自野生来源，因此应注意保护它们。此外，应该将这种传统的药用知识整合到现代医学中，以研究这些疗法的急性和慢性毒性特征和疗效，以确定潜在的先导化合物用于现代药物。
