Abstract

ORTIZ NOVA, Yaneth  and  MANRIQUE-VILLANUEVA, Lina María Patricia. Traditional tikuna medicine in post-pandemic times. A perspective from communication for social change. Investig. desarro. [online]. 2024, vol.32, n.1, pp.7-34.  Epub June 09, 2024. ISSN 0121-3261.  https://doi.org/10.14482/indes.32.01.986.765.

With the objective of understanding the different ways of maintaining and transmitting traditional knowledge on the management of wild and domesticated natural resources to prevent and treat the illness of the members of the Tikuna community of the San Sebastián de los Lagos Resguardo, in Leticia (Amazonas), this research uses elements of the ethnographic method and Participatory Action Research (PAR). This project was developed in three phases: diagnostic, participatory action and systematization of information. In the context of the field work with the community, visits were made in July 2022 to the orchard, the chagra and the forest with the women of the community, collecting leaves from a herbarium that served as a pretext for dialogue on the medicinal properties of plants. The results show that the people who managed to stay within the community, performing care based on traditional medicine with leaves, incense, and care, were able to recover from Covid-19.

Keywords : traditional medicine; communication for social change; tikuna.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )