The symbolic logic in the folk medicine

Authors

  • Antônio Talora Delgado Sobrinho
  • Oswaldo Martins Ravagnani
  • Silvia M. S. Carvalho

Keywords:

Fitoterapia, Medicina popular, Curador, Plantas medicinais, Remédios e doenças, Representações simbólicas, Phytotherapy, Folk medicine, Folk healer, Medicinal plants, Medicines and illneses, Symbolic representations,

Abstract

The aim of this exploratiry paper is to detected the existence of a symbolic logic in folk medicine (phytotherapy).

Published

28/06/2007

Issue

Section

Artigos