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Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19

Household responses to COVID-19 in different corners of the world represent the primary health care that communities have relied on for preventing and mitigating symptoms. During a very complex and confusing time, in which public health services in multiple countries have been completely overwhelmed...

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Autores principales: Pieroni, Andrea, Vandebroek, Ina, Prakofjewa, Julia, Bussmann, Rainer W., Paniagua-Zambrana, Narel Y., Maroyi, Alfred, Torri, Luisa, Zocchi, Dauro M., Dam, Ashley T. K., Khan, Shujaul M., Ahmad, Habib, Yeşil, Yeter, Huish, Ryan, Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel, Mocan, Andrei, Hu, Xuebo, Boscolo, Odara, Sõukand, Renata
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7724619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33298108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-020-00426-9
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author Pieroni, Andrea
Vandebroek, Ina
Prakofjewa, Julia
Bussmann, Rainer W.
Paniagua-Zambrana, Narel Y.
Maroyi, Alfred
Torri, Luisa
Zocchi, Dauro M.
Dam, Ashley T. K.
Khan, Shujaul M.
Ahmad, Habib
Yeşil, Yeter
Huish, Ryan
Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel
Mocan, Andrei
Hu, Xuebo
Boscolo, Odara
Sõukand, Renata
author_facet Pieroni, Andrea
Vandebroek, Ina
Prakofjewa, Julia
Bussmann, Rainer W.
Paniagua-Zambrana, Narel Y.
Maroyi, Alfred
Torri, Luisa
Zocchi, Dauro M.
Dam, Ashley T. K.
Khan, Shujaul M.
Ahmad, Habib
Yeşil, Yeter
Huish, Ryan
Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel
Mocan, Andrei
Hu, Xuebo
Boscolo, Odara
Sõukand, Renata
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description Household responses to COVID-19 in different corners of the world represent the primary health care that communities have relied on for preventing and mitigating symptoms. During a very complex and confusing time, in which public health services in multiple countries have been completely overwhelmed, and in some cases even collapsed, these first-line household responses have been quintessential for building physical, mental, and social resilience, and for improving individual and community health. This editorial discusses the outcomes of a rapid-response preliminary survey during the first phase of the pandemic among social and community contacts in five metropolises heavily affected by the COVID-19 health crisis (Wuhan, Milan, Madrid, New York, and Rio de Janeiro), and in twelve rural areas or countries initially less affected by the pandemic (Appalachia, Jamaica, Bolivia, Romania, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Georgia, Turkey, Pakistan, Cambodia, and South Africa). We summarized our perspectives as 17 case studies, observing that people have relied primarily on teas and spices (“food-medicines”) and that there exist clear international plant favorites, popularized by various new media. Urban diasporas and rural households seem to have repurposed homemade plant-based remedies that they use in normal times for treating the flu and other respiratory symptoms or that they simply consider healthy foods. The most remarkable shift in many areas has been the increased consumption of ginger and garlic, followed by onion, turmeric, and lemon. Our preliminary inventory of food medicines serves as a baseline for future systematic ethnobotanical studies and aims to inspire in-depth research on how use patterns of plant-based foods and beverages, both “traditional” and “new”, are changing during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Our reflections in this editorial call attention to the importance of ethnobiology, ethnomedicine, and ethnogastronomy research into domestic health care strategies for improving community health. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary information accompanies this paper at 10.1186/s13002-020-00426-9.
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spelling pubmed-77246192020-12-10 Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19 Pieroni, Andrea Vandebroek, Ina Prakofjewa, Julia Bussmann, Rainer W. Paniagua-Zambrana, Narel Y. Maroyi, Alfred Torri, Luisa Zocchi, Dauro M. Dam, Ashley T. K. Khan, Shujaul M. Ahmad, Habib Yeşil, Yeter Huish, Ryan Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel Mocan, Andrei Hu, Xuebo Boscolo, Odara Sõukand, Renata J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Editorial Household responses to COVID-19 in different corners of the world represent the primary health care that communities have relied on for preventing and mitigating symptoms. During a very complex and confusing time, in which public health services in multiple countries have been completely overwhelmed, and in some cases even collapsed, these first-line household responses have been quintessential for building physical, mental, and social resilience, and for improving individual and community health. This editorial discusses the outcomes of a rapid-response preliminary survey during the first phase of the pandemic among social and community contacts in five metropolises heavily affected by the COVID-19 health crisis (Wuhan, Milan, Madrid, New York, and Rio de Janeiro), and in twelve rural areas or countries initially less affected by the pandemic (Appalachia, Jamaica, Bolivia, Romania, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Georgia, Turkey, Pakistan, Cambodia, and South Africa). We summarized our perspectives as 17 case studies, observing that people have relied primarily on teas and spices (“food-medicines”) and that there exist clear international plant favorites, popularized by various new media. Urban diasporas and rural households seem to have repurposed homemade plant-based remedies that they use in normal times for treating the flu and other respiratory symptoms or that they simply consider healthy foods. The most remarkable shift in many areas has been the increased consumption of ginger and garlic, followed by onion, turmeric, and lemon. Our preliminary inventory of food medicines serves as a baseline for future systematic ethnobotanical studies and aims to inspire in-depth research on how use patterns of plant-based foods and beverages, both “traditional” and “new”, are changing during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Our reflections in this editorial call attention to the importance of ethnobiology, ethnomedicine, and ethnogastronomy research into domestic health care strategies for improving community health. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary information accompanies this paper at 10.1186/s13002-020-00426-9. BioMed Central 2020-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7724619/ /pubmed/33298108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-020-00426-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Pieroni, Andrea
Vandebroek, Ina
Prakofjewa, Julia
Bussmann, Rainer W.
Paniagua-Zambrana, Narel Y.
Maroyi, Alfred
Torri, Luisa
Zocchi, Dauro M.
Dam, Ashley T. K.
Khan, Shujaul M.
Ahmad, Habib
Yeşil, Yeter
Huish, Ryan
Pardo-de-Santayana, Manuel
Mocan, Andrei
Hu, Xuebo
Boscolo, Odara
Sõukand, Renata
Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19
title Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19
title_full Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19
title_fullStr Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19
title_short Taming the pandemic? The importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to COVID-19
title_sort taming the pandemic? the importance of homemade plant-based foods and beverages as community responses to covid-19
topic Editorial
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7724619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33298108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-020-00426-9
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