Fish-based remedies in Spanish ethnomedicine: a review from a historical perspective

Abstract Background Fish-based therapeutics is fundamentally based on a dietary use, but these vertebrates have also been employed in the treatment of infectious and parasitic diseases, during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum and to deal with diseases of the different systems. Methods An overvie...

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Main Authors: Vallejo, José, González, José
Format: Review
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
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Online Access:http://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/10/1/37