Ancestral knowledge in healing the prostate based on isaño (Tropaeolum tuberosum ruiz y pavón)

Mamani E.F.; Ticona J.A.; Ponce W.C.C.; Calizaya G.Q.; Rojas F.H.; Paxi A.C.; Mamani J.I.; Panca P.H.; Churata A.Z. · Idesia (2020) · DOI: 10.4067/s0718-34292020000400007

Resumen

Ancestral knowledge of traditional medicine is important because they were present in the fight against many different diseases when there were no hospitals or health care professionals, nowadays this is being underestimated and overlooked by science; many High Andean people and from other places suffer from prostate inflammation, which used to be cured with isaño.The objective of the article is to systematize the knowledge of the practice of the treatment of the prostate through the cultivated isaño (for consumption) and pajarillu (wild isaño) in the rural communities of the provinces of Yunguyo, Chucuito, El Collao and Puno of the region from Puno-Peru. The research approach is qualitative, ethnographic and phenomenological, the population of study were elderly people who know about prevention and healing of the prostate with isaño. The technique of semi-structured interview was used to obtain information from the field. The result reveals that the wild isaño or pajarillu is the tuber that fulfills the healing role of the prostate of people suffering from the disease and is not the cultivated isaño, which only fulfills the role of prevention. It is concluded that many people with prostate disease were healed by healers based on the pajarillu isaño.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional del Altiplano