Ethnoveterinary Knowledge and Practice Applied to Domestic Animals Raised in the Ukraine Colonization Community of Palmital, Paraná State, Brazil

Animals Raised in the Ukraine Colonization Community of Palmital, Paraná State, Brazil. Although Brazil is one of the world’s major cattle producers and has rich social, ethnic, and biological diversity, ethnoveterinary studies are rare in Southern Brazil. Knowledge of plant use by farmers in the...

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Published in:	Economic botany Vol. 76; no. 3; pp. 273 - 284
Main Authors:	Burei, Sarita Teresinha, Santana, Diógenes Adriano Duarte, Lopez, Bruna Broch, Sotomaior, Cristina Santos, Acra, Luiz Antônio, Weber, Saulo Henrique, Ollhoff, Rüdiger Daniel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York Springer US 01-09-2022 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Animal diseases Animal species Animals Antiparasitic agents Biodiversity Biomedical and Life Sciences Cattle Colonization Domestic animals Ethnic factors Farmers Health problems Herbal medicine Indigenous species Introduced species Life Sciences Livestock Mastitis Medicinal plants Original Article Plant Anatomy/Development Plant communities Plant Ecology Plant Physiology Plant Sciences Plant species introduction Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography Random sampling Rural areas Small farms Statistical sampling Brazil Ukraine Medicinal plants European American traditional knowledge Livestock diseases Cattle Ethnobotany Ethnoveterinary medicine
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Summary:	Animals Raised in the Ukraine Colonization Community of Palmital, Paraná State, Brazil. Although Brazil is one of the world’s major cattle producers and has rich social, ethnic, and biological diversity, ethnoveterinary studies are rare in Southern Brazil. Knowledge of plant use by farmers in the rural areas of the Ukrainian colony of Palmital, southern Brazil, can contribute to understanding the relationships among plants, smallholder farmers, and their livestock. Semi–structured interviews were conducted with non–random sampling following the “snowball” method. The information collected included local plant names, plant parts used, mode of preparation, route of administration, domestic animal species, and diseases requiring treatment. The informants were encouraged to show the plants, which were collected, identified, and stored. The informant consensus factor (ICF) and the use value (UV) were calculated. Thirty women and 20 men reported a total of 45 native and introduced plant species belonging to 29 families that are used for ethnoveterinary practices, mostly for cattle and goats, with the highest ICF for mastitis and antiparasitic treatments. Cattle are the most important livestock species bred in the community; therefore, most plant treatments were for cattle health problems. Similar studies on European immigrant communities in Brazil are lacking and could be a valuable source of information about how immigrant culture translate into local knowledge of veterinary medicinal plants.
ISSN:	0013-0001 1874-9364
DOI:	10.1007/s12231-022-09549-4