Journal
EMIRATES JOURNAL OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Volume 27, Issue 6, Pages 502-506Publisher
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIV
DOI: 10.9755/ejfa.2015.04.079
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Ecuador; Geotrigona; Medicinal uses; Melipona; Meliponini; Pot-honey; Scaptotrigona
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- Prometeo, Senescyt, Ecuador
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Ecuadorian stingless bees (Apidae, Meliponini) have ethnomedicinal interest because their products are used in healing. Diverse remedies consist on pot-honey alone or mixed with infusions. This set of medicinal uses were informed in El Oro province by Ecuadorian stingless bee keepers -known as meliponicultors- in Latin America: Bruises, tumors, ocular cataracts, pterygium, inflammation, infections, varicose veins, cleaning blood after childbirth, kidney diseases, tumor, wound healing, and soothing balm before sleeping. Scaptotrigona ederi named catiana or catana is the most frequent bee in the visited cantons Las Lajas, Balsas, Pinas, and Zaruma. Other important stingless bees are Melipona indecisa cananambo, Meripona mimetica bermejo, Nannotrigona cf. perilampoides piton, and Paratrigona aff. eutaeniata pirunga. A bioprospective research will follow to value this ancient tradition and the honey processed in cerumen pots, with sound inclusion in the Ecuadorian honey regulation NTE INEN 1572, currently under revision.
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