Animals in Traditional Folk Medicine Implications for Conservation /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Alves, Rômulo Romeu Nóbrega (Editor), Rosa, Ierecê Lucena (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Conservation biology.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Conservation Biology/Ecology.

People have relied on medicinal products derived from natural sources for millennia, and animals have long been an important part of that repertoire; nearly all cultures, from ancient times to the present, have used animals as a source of medicine. Ingredients derived from wild animals are not only...