Background. The Andean culture, rich in ancestral knowledge, is practiced in the Cuenca Canton, where its inhabitants commonly use ancestral medicine, deeply rooted in their beliefs and traditions. Aim. Describe the current ...

With the purpose of collaborating in the preservation of the oral, iconographic and ethnobotanical intangible heritage of the original Kichwa Sarayaku people, through a collaboration between their empirical knowledge and ...

BACKGROUND: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), traditional medicine is a set of knowledge, skills and practices based on indigenous theories, beliefs and experiences of different cultures, whether or not ...

BACKGROUND. - The ancestral medicine throughout history has tried to rescue their customs, beliefs and knowledge, at the same time it tries to attach new abilities and skills in order to improve its practice, which contributes ...