The "Materia Medica Misionera" attributed to the Jesuit Pedro de Montenegro in 1710: Identification, systematization and interpretation of plant medicinal uses and their implications for current ethnobotany
This paper is conceived as a first contribution for a global ethnobotanical characterization of the most outstanding historic herbarium of the South American South Cone: the “Materia Medica Misionera”, assigned to the jesuit Pedro de Montenegro [1710] (1945). The aim of this work is the sistematizat...
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Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ihs/article/view/24771 |
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| Sumario: | This paper is conceived as a first contribution for a global ethnobotanical characterization of the most outstanding historic herbarium of the South American South Cone: the “Materia Medica Misionera”, assigned to the jesuit Pedro de Montenegro [1710] (1945). The aim of this work is the sistematization, quantification and interpretation -in their medical and historical context- of medicinal and non-medicinal applications assigned to each one of the plant items included in the Materia Medica Misionera. The methodology used corresponds to the historical ethnobotany, which considers the data of the past as a primary source of information on which the classical ethnobotanical method is applied. A total of 1234 uses grouped in 17 categories and assigned to 141 plant entities were referred to in the Materia Medica Misionera by its vernacular name. Medicinal uses assigned to 140 plant entities, grouped the major proportion (92,3 %) of the data (1142). The high volume of identified and sistematized data, its evident and valuable contribution to the missionary medical ethnobotany, and to the present Criollos’ medical ethnobotany and ethnomedicine of South Cone countries form South America, is here highlighted. |
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