The rainbow hurts my skin: Medicinal concepts and plants uses among the Yanesha (Amuesha), an Amazonian Peruvian ethnic group

摘要: Yanesha, also called Amuesha, is a group of amerindian people, belonging to the arawak linguistic family. They dwell in central region Peru, at oriental foothills Andes. Their territory covers large range ecological settings, and communities spread from 1800 down 400 m/snm. The Yanesha culture vivid this day, people strongly rely on traditional medicine their everyday life. An exhaustive ethnopharmacological survey leads us collect 249 species with medicinal uses. overview pharmacopoeia, linked ethnomedicinal practices presented paper.