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Traditional medicine applied by the Saraguro yachakkuna: a preliminary approach to the use of sacred and psychoactive plant species in the southern region of Ecuador

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, February 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (78th percentile)

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Title
Traditional medicine applied by the Saraguro yachakkuna: a preliminary approach to the use of sacred and psychoactive plant species in the southern region of Ecuador
Published in
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, February 2014
DOI 10.1186/1746-4269-10-26
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Authors

Chabaco Armijos, Iuliana Cota, Silvia González

Abstract

During the colonial period, the indigenous saraguros maintained their traditions, knowledge, and practices to restore and preserve the health of their members. Unfortunately, many of their practices and medicinal resources have not been documented. In this study, we sought to document the traditional healers' (yachakkuna saraguros) knowledge about medicinal and psychoactive plants used in the mesas and in magical-religious rituals. The study was conducted under a technical and scientific cooperation agreement between the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (UTPL), the Dirección Provincial de Salud de Loja (DPSL), and the Saraguro Healers Council (Consejo de Sanadores de Saraguro).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Ecuador 4 3%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 132 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 26 19%
Student > Bachelor 20 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 9%
Student > Master 9 7%
Professor 7 5%
Other 28 20%
Unknown 34 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 13%
Social Sciences 12 9%
Chemistry 12 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 7%
Other 39 28%
Unknown 36 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 October 2023.
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#5,762,586
of 23,340,595 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#201
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#53,464
of 224,529 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
#6
of 28 outputs
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