O conhecimento e a prática sobre homeopatia pela família agrícola

• Autor(a) principal: Cupertino, Maria do Carmo
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/4487
• topic: Ultradiluição; Radiestesia; Agricultura familiar; Ultradilution; Radiesthesia; Family agriculture; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA::FITOTECNIA

The agricultural family as researcher in the productive unit has fundamental function in the validation of the homeopathy as option in the farming. Farming family acquired knowledge through experimentation in practice day by day. There are many observed results from the participation of the agricultural family as researcher. To evaluate the information generated with the experimentations, to know the logic adopted by the agricultural family, that develop studies on the base and principles of Science of the Homeopathy, to identify as the homeopathy is being noticed by the agricultural family and to identify the origin and source of the knowledge, those were some of the objectives of this study. The study was accomplished through interviews with farmers family that use and have knowledge on homeopathy through Course of Extension in Homeopathy of the Universidade Federal de Viçosa (UFV) including 17 municipal districts, being 12 from Zona da Mata and Vale do Rio Doce and 5 municipal districts of Northwest Espírito Santo. They were interviewed 44 persons, being 77% of the age group 26 to 50 year old. Most of the interviewees was part of family agriculture and their productive units were small farms, the source of income originating from agriculture and the livestock. It was concluded of this study that there are technologies generated with the experiences in the productive unit through the acquired knowledge and the homeopathy is of easy understanding and application. The homeopathy course is effective in giving knowledge on homeopathy to agricultural family and the homeopathy concepts are being applied jointly with other sources of knowledge.