CONHECIMENTO POPULAR SOBRE PLANTAS MEDICINAIS E FARMÁCIAS VIVAS ESTUDO ETNOBOTÂNICO COMO FATOR DE SUSTENTABILIDADE LOCAL

• Autor(a) principal: Sarmet, Linamar Esposito
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal Fluminense (RIUFF)
• Texto Completo: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/19555
• topic: Plantas medicinais; Medicina tradicional; Etno-pesquisadores; Saúde pública local; Fitomedicamentos; Ferramenta gerencial; Comércio ilegal de plantas; Medicinal plants; Traditional medicine; Ethno-researchers; Local public healthcare; Phyto-medication; Management tool; Plants illegal commercialization; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA DE PRODUCAO

This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge of medicinal plants use and ethnomedical practices of contemporary populations from Campo Redondo, Fragária e Capivara; small rural areas located at an altitude of 1800 feet, in the high mountains usually called Alto Aiuruoca, in Itamonte, Minas Gerais-Brazil. The purpose of this study was to identify the culturally significant medicinal plants species and families used, finding out the different methods for various ethno-medicinal preparations, in order to calculate the Use Value-UV, Reported Use Value-RUV and Informant Consensus Factor-ICF pointing to the principal local disease categories which had been treated with medicinal plants/herbs in this area. Medicinal plant species were inventoried during homemade with sampling. Qualitative and quantitative data on medicinal uses were obtained from 13 local specialists selected by the snow ball method coupled with the forest walk method, using a semi structured interview. The exsiccates were locally prepared and sent to the State University of Rio de Janeiro to be botanically identified and herborized according to current practice. Knowledge associated with traditional medicine is generally transmitted verbally, which results in a dependency on the ethno-researcher s good sense to report with sufficiently detailed descriptions so as to allow constructing, calculating and inventorying of the principal plants utilized for medicinal purposes in selected locations and cultures. For qualitative purposes questions were asked in reference to the use of medicinal plants, such as: Who taught you about these plants? Why do you use these plants? , What are the most important plants used for medicinal treatment? , Which plants, and under which circumstances are these plants used? , How are these plants used and prepared? , Where can these plants be found ? The answers were used to quantify UV, RUV and ICF. Most of the informants here were woman, descendant from the original Portuguese colonizers, following catholic in religion and have acquired knowledge and medicinal herbs skills through their mothers. A total of 32 species, most of them exotics, from 13 botanical families were identified and found to be from: Amaranthaceae, Anacardiaceae, Apiaceae, Asteraceae, Bignoniaceae, Celastraceae, Crassulaceae, Lamiaceae, Loganiaceae, Piperaceae, Plantaginaceae, Verbenaceae e Violaceae. The statistical UC, RUV and ICF results show the principal local diseases treated with the medicinal herbs, demonstrating that ethno-botanical quantitative studies could be used with the intent of improving the local public health, covering a gap due to the lack of planning in the production, development and distribution sectors which deal with phyto-medication and plant related drugs. Hoping that this ethno-botanical inventory could be utilized to stimulate medicinal productive sectors, with emphasis in the cost-effectiveness and needs of public healthcare which have been neglected by the health industries and that the growing demand for medicinal plants can, in parallel, help to improve quality control monitoring crop methodologies helping to avoid that many species of medicinal plants run the risk of disappearing due to indiscriminate use and illegal commercialization throughout the world. Finally, this advents the following hypothesis: Could an ethno-botanical study coupled with a local epidemiological study be used as an effective management tool for development of local public health using plant related drugs?