Other mentions to “derrame” with the same meaning, also caused by the wind and including convulsive seizures, have been found in Brazilian communities (Amorozo and Gély, 1988; Costa-Neto, 2000; Moura, 2008). Thus, “derrame” is probably a creation of Brazilian rural communities. We suggest that the ‘emic’ expression “derrame” was taken from conventional medicine for its old meaning of stroke, characterized by a sudden motor deficit, accompanied or not by impairments to the consciousness. Later, it was probably extended to any illness displaying neurological deficits, such as Bell's palsy, and further extended to the central nervous system manifestations of malaria (Singhi, 2011) and yellow fever (Jones and Wilson, 1972) with seizures. [inglês]

PAGANI, E.; SANTOS, J. F. L.; RODRIGUES, E. Culture-Bound Syndromes of a Brazilian Amazon Riverine population: Tentative correspondence between traditional and conventional medicine terms and possible ethnopharmacological implications. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, v. 203, n. 1, p. 80–89, 5 maio 2017.