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Ethnoveterinary Medicine and Ethnopharmacology in the Main Transhumance Areas of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain)

2022; Frontiers Media; Volume: 9; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3389/fvets.2022.866132

2297-1769

Diego Rivera, Alonso Verde López, José Fajardo Rodríguez, Segundo Ríos, Francisco Alcaraz, Carlos Cárceles, Juana Ortíz, Arturo Valdés, José Reyes Ruíz Gallardo, Aida García-Flores, José A. Palazón, Concepción Obón,

Mediterranean and Iberian flora and fauna

In this study, we document the practices of ethnoveterinary medicine and ethnopharmacology in the context of traditional transhumance routes that cross Castilla La Mancha from north to south. Transhumance is a type of grazing system that allows advantage to be taken of winter pastures (wintering places) and summer pastures by seasonal movement, twice a year, of cattle and their shepherds. Our study is based on over 200 interviews (from 1994 to 2021) conducted in 86 localities along eight major transhumance routes "cañadas reales" and 25 other minor transhumance routes, and involved 210 informants, 89 single and 121 groups, and 562 individuals, of which the majority were men. Sixty-three recorded pathologies and their treatments are discussed. Two hundred and two species and substances, belonging to 92 different families, have been recorded from the interviews, of which most are plants. Amid the toxic plant species, the most cited in the interviews are