Table 1.

Categories of diseases treated with zootherapeutic remedies in Northeast Brazil, according to the Brazilian Centre of Diseases Classification and the number of species used per category.

Categories of diseases	Number of medicinal animals
Some infections and parasitic diseases	58
Respiratory system	132
Digestive system	38
Undefined illnesses	71
External causes of morbidity and mortality	45
Osteomuscular system and conjunctive tissue	71
Injuries, poisoning and other consequences of external causes	77
Urinogenital system	19
Circulatory system	64
Skin and subcutaneous tissue	44
Nervous system	27
Neoplasias (tumours)	12
Ear (middle and inner ear) and mastoid apophysis	32
Blood and haematopoeitic organs, and some disorders of the immune system	4
Pregnancy, parturition, and puerperium	7
Symptoms, signs, and abnormal findings from medical and laboratorial examination, not categorized in other part or section	9
Mental and behavioral perturbations	12
Diseases of the endocrine glands, metabolism and nutrition	3
Ophthalmological diseases	13
Congenital malformations, deformities and cromossomic abnormalities	2