ReviewJournal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine2013
The use of the head louse as a remedy for jaundice in Spanish folk medicine: an overview.
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- Entomotherapy: a study of medicinal insects of seven ethnic groups in Nagaland, North-East India.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2021Article
- Use of cultivated plants and non-plant remedies for human and animal home-medication in Liubań district, Belarus.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2017Article
- Insects: an underrepresented resource for the discovery of biologically active natural products.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2017Review
- Therapeutic arthropods and other, largely terrestrial, folk-medicinally important invertebrates: a comparative survey and review.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2017Review
- Folk knowledge of invertebrates in Central Europe - folk taxonomy, nomenclature, medicinal and other uses, folklore, and nature conservation.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2016Article
- Fish-based remedies in Spanish ethnomedicine: a review from a historical perspective.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2014Review
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Abstract
backgroundIn Spain, head lice are considered a therapeutic resource for the treatment of jaundice. All folk remedies based on the ingestion of these insects meet in the present document, previously dispersed among a large number of references.
methodsAn overview of the Spanish literature has been carried out. The most important databases have been consulted. All related works have been examined.
resultsAlthough the method of preparation is diverse and the dose varies, the primary recommendation is a transference ritual consisting of taking nine live lice for nine days on an empty stomach without the patient's knowledge. This traditional knowledge survives in Spanish society, and constitutes an example of the interrelation between Spanish and Latin American folk medicines.
conclusionsThe survival of this therapy in the worldview of certain rural communities suggests the need to take into account the beliefs, ideas and behaviour patterns of popular culture in relation to health and disease.
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