Download or read book Plantes m dicinales et m decine traditionnelle d Afrique Nouvelle dition written by SOFOWORA Abayomi and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cahier de 12 photos couleur. Depuis la préhistoire, l'être humain recherche dans son environnement (plantes, animaux, pierres, esprits) de quoi soulager ses maux et traiter ses blessures. La médecine moderne occidentale a rejeté la plupart de ces recours pour développer des médicaments chimiques et une technique de soins sophistiquée. Elle continue cependant d'utiliser certains remèdes à base de plantes médicinales. Une tendance récente conduit même à rechercher dans les plantes de nouveaux produits de substitution pour certaines maladies : cancer, paludisme... Plus de 200 000 espèces végétales sur les 300 000 recensées de nos jours sur l'ensemble de notre planète vivent dans les pays tropicaux d'Afrique et d'ailleurs. L'histoire de la médecine montre l'importance de ces espèces dans les thérapies, toutes les sociétés traditionnelles ayant puisé, pour leurs soins de santé, dans cette pharmacopée végétale d'une très grande richesse. L'auteur, Abayomi Sofowora, met en valeur les avantages et les inconvénients de cette médecine traditionnelle : il examine par exemplae les techniques utilisées et les problèmes de normalisation et de dosage.

Download or read book Plantes m dicinales et m decine traditionnelle d Afrique written by Abayomi Sofowora and published by Karthala. This book was released on 1996 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Les plantes medicinales en Afrique et en Europe written by Amélie Metuedjo and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Introduction: Objet et but: Ce travail consiste en une analyse terminologique des noms des plantes médicinales. Cette analyse se fera tant en francais qu'en allemand et mettra en évidence les différentes espèces des plantes médicinales ainsi que les classes auxquelles elles appartiennent, de même que leurs différents emplois. Le but du travail est d'attirer l'attention sur le fait que la nature a mis à notre disposition une richesse inestimable que nous avons juste besoin de mettre à profit lorsque les circonstances s'y prêtent, c'est-à-dire dans des cas de maladie, afin de retrouver la santé. Les plantes qui nous entourent ne font pas seulement partie du décor ou du paysage. Bien que nous allons parfois jusqu’à les considérer comme des parasites ou des mauvaises herbes, elles ont, elles aussi, leur raison d'être. Nous les foulons quelquefois au passage, alors qu'elles peuvent nous sauver la vie; d'ailleurs beaucoup d'entre elles sont des médicaments. De plus en plus de personnes prennent conscience des vertus de ces plantes, et c'est à ce titre qu'aujourd'hui, un grand nombre d'entre elles se tournent vers les médecins homéopathes ou physiologistes en cas de maladie. En Afrique, ce sont surtout les médecins traditionalistes qui utilisent les plantes en guise de traitement. Ils le faisaient autrefois surtout pour se rendre utiles et parfois même bénévolement. Mais, de nos jours, ce West plus le cas. L'esprit mercantile a pris le pas sur la volonté de l'homme de rendre utile. C'est ainsi que leurs services sont chèrement taxes. Leurs prix sont fonction de la durée du traitement, de la complication de la maladie et de la difficulté qu'ils éprouvent à retrouver les plantes nécessaires. Les médecins traditionalistes encore appelés « guérisseurs» ont hérité toutes leurs connaissances de leurs parents. Ceux-ci leur ont appris à reconnaître et à diagnostiquer une maladie et à la combattre, à répertorier les plantes soignantes, à les utiliser en évaluant le dosage. La transmission de la médecine traditionnelle en Afrique se fait oralement. Motivation: Je suis arrivée à l'idée d'écrire un travail sur les plantes médicinales parce qu'il m'est plusieurs fois été donné de voir la médecine moderne échouer devant certains cas de maladie, lesquels ont cependant été guéris par la médecine traditionnelle. C'est ce que la médecine moderne appelle parfois « guérison miraculeuse.» Le terme « médecine traditionnelle » est surtout rencontre dans le [...]

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Download or read book Ethnobotany written by Gary J. Martin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnoecology has blossomed in recent years into an important science because of the realization that the vast body of knowledge contained in both indigenous and folk cultures is being rapidly lost as natural ecosystems and cultures are being destroyed by the encroachment of development. Ethnobotany and ethnozoology both began largely with direct observations about the ways in which people used plants and animals and consisted mainly of the compilation of lists. Recently, these subjects have adopted a much more scientific and quantitative methodology and have studied the ways in which people manage their environment and, as a consequence, have used a much more ecological approach. This manual of ethnobotanical methodology will become an essential tool for all ethnobiologists and ethnoecologists. It fills a significant gap in the literature and I only wish it had been available some years previously so that I could have given it to many of my students. I shall certainly recommend it to any future students who are interested in ethnoecology. I particularly like the sympathetic approach to local peoples which pervades this book. It is one which encourages the ethnobotanical work by both the local people themselves and by academically trained researchers. A study of this book will avoid many of the arrogant approaches of the past and encourage a fair deal for any group which is being studied. This manual promotes both the involvement oflocal people and the return to them of knowledge which has been studied by outsiders.