Conhecimento e utilização das plantas medicinais na terceira idade

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Giselle Vieira Henrique
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Silveira, Pricilla Hypólito da
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Universitário da Ânima (RUNA)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/4900
• topic: Plantas medicinais; Saúde; Idosos; Conhecimento

This work comes to an exploratory qualitative research, conducted at Primary Care Unit (BHU), in São José, with the study subjects 100 (one hundred) Roçado elderly residents of the neighborhood, St. Joseph, aged 60. For Madeleine Leininger, care is an essential human need for total development and maintenance of the health and survival of humans in all cultures of the world. She says that caring is the essence of nursing, and also its unique focus, unifying and dominant. We search to rescue the popular knowledge of this elderly people, ie which plants known and used by them, as their way of preparation, conservation and how they teach their knowledge to the next generations. To collect data we used a semi-structured form where we have access the answers during their visits at the healthy center of Roçado. These data were tabulated and analyzed separately for each question to abetter understanding, with added graphics and pictures of medicinal plants. Through the research it was possible classify 57 different medicinal plants, where 57 elderly people cultivate at their residences and 71 pass their empirical knowledge for sons, grandson, friend or neighbor. After collecting and analyzing these data it was possible to scientifically study using bibliographies of the 11 most used plants for these seniors, thus making a comparison empirical / scientific about the correct use of the medicinal plant in maintaining the health of the elderly.