A study on food-medicine continuum among the non-institutionally trained siddha practitioners of Tiruvallur district, Tamil Nadu, India

Autor: Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi, S. Mutheeswaran, Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu, S. Esakkimuthu, P. Pandikumar, S. Sylvester Darvin, M. Gabriel Paulraj
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Male
0301 basic medicine
Health (social science)
Traditional brand identity
0302 clinical medicine
Functional Food
Surveys and Questionnaires
lcsh:Botany
Medicine
Medical nutrition therapy
Aged
80 and over
Traditional medicine
biology
lcsh:Other systems of medicine
Middle Aged
lcsh:QK1-989
Medicinal foods
Knowledge
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
language
Fish
Female
Abutilon indicum
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Adult
Cultural Studies
Consensus
Functional foods
Indian traditional medicine
India
03 medical and health sciences
Siddha
Animals
Humans
Traditional knowledge
Aged
Plants
Medicinal
business.industry
Research
Plant based
biology.organism_classification
lcsh:RZ201-999
language.human_language
Medicine
Ayurvedic
030104 developmental biology
Complementary and alternative medicine
Tamil
Brand identity
business
human activities
Phytotherapy
Zdroj: Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-29 (2018)
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
ISSN: 1746-4269
DOI: 10.1186/s13002-018-0240-9
Popis: Background Medicinal properties of the food species are one of the poorly documented and important areas of ethnopharmacology. The present survey quantitatively documented the medicinal foods prescribed by the non-institutionally trained siddha practitioners of Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu. Methods Field work was carried out between December 2014 and April 2017 using a questionnaire. The illnesses mentioned by the informants were grouped as illness categories on the basis of emic perceptions. Sufficiency of sampling of this survey was assessed by plotting the cumulative number of UR and Shannon-Wiener’s index. The indices such as informant consensus factor (FIC), Index of Agreement on Remedies (IAR), and Cultural Food Significance Index (CFSI) were calculated. Results This study documented 165 medicinal foods used by 82 non-institutionally trained siddha practitioners of Tiruvallur district, and 73.93% of these preparations were plant based. Among the animal taxa, 82.05% were represented by fish taxa. The illness category gastrointestinal ailments is the majorly cited illness category treated with plant-based formulations. The illness categories viz., gastrointestinal ailments, hemorrhoids, and neural ailments had high consensus under the group of plant-based medicinal foods. In animal-based medicinal foods, kapha ailments had gained 23.07% of UR. The illness categories such as bone fractures, male reproductive ailments, blood ailments, and anabolic had high FIC values. Conclusions Deeper studies on different dietary cultures of India may help to derive better interpretations on food-medicine continuum. This study identified some important claims such as the use of citron, pomegranate and Solanum americanum (gastrointestinal ailments), Abutilon indicum, onions and elephant foot yam (hemorrhoids), Boerhavia diffusa (urinary ailments), Moringa oleifera (anemia), Aloe vera (gynecological ailments), Eclipta prostrata (liver ailments), ivy gourd (diabetes), citron (hypertension), Centella asiatica (psychological ailments), spade nose shark (lactogogue), reticulate whipray (wheezing and bronchitis), Katelysia opima (impotence), Indian squid (anemia), and Indian oil sardine (anabolic). More studies on these claims will help identify novel functional foods to add to the field of medical nutrition therapy, with traditional brand identity. Robust studies on the documentation of the traditional knowledge on marine resources will yield a good database for various stakeholders and policy makers. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s13002-018-0240-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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