Medicinal plants and people with tuberculosis: description of care practices in northern Bahia, 2017

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas Neto, Walter Ataalpa de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Araújo Andrade, Silvânia Suely Caribé de, Silva, Gabriela Drummond Marques da, Nery, Joilda Silva, Sanchez, Mauro Niskier, Codenotti, Stefano Barbosa, Santos, Maria Aline Siqueira, Bedor, Cheila Nataly Galindo, Maia, Gabriela Lemos de Azevedo
• Tipo de documento: preprint
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: SciELO Preprints
• Texto Completo: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/935
• topic: Plantas Medicinais; Tuberculose; Terapias Complementares; Estudos Transversais; Medicinal Plants; Tuberculosis; Complementary Therapies; Cross-Sectional Studies

Objective. To describe the medicinal plants used by people with tuberculosis (TB) in municipalities in northern Bahia, in 2017. Methods. A descriptive study was carried out with primary data on medicinal plants used by people with TB <18 years old, presented by botanical nomenclature and frequency of consumption. Results. Of the 80 people interviewed, 50 reported consuming some medicinal plant, among which, they were mainly male (34), ≥47 years old (22), brown/black (34), with up to complete primary education (25), married (26), not economically active (30), with up to 300.00 reais/month (26), with cough (33) and with no previous history of TB (44). Two species featured in the citations, Chenopodium ambrosioides L. (mastruz: 23 citations), and Solanum capsicoides All. (beach-watermelon: 17 citations). Conclusion. There was widespread use of medicinal plants as a TB care practice in six municipalities in northern Bahia.