Vegetable drugs used by traditional and indigenous communities to treat intestinal parasites: a literature review

• Autor(a) principal: Lemos, Jefferson Raphael Gonzaga
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Vieira-Silva, Thábita Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde (Santa Maria)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistasaude/article/view/62047
• topic: Parasites; Botany; Ethnobotany; Traditional Medicine; Pharmacology; Parasitos; Botânica; Etnobotânica; Medicina Tradicional; Farmacologia

Ethinobotanical studies are extremely important for the expansion and preservation of popular medicinal knowledge and the botanical species used for this purpose. The use of plants to treat parasitic diseases is very common in poor communities lacking basic sanitation. The objective of this work was to research botanical species used to treat worms, to identify the most used botanical families and plant structures. For this, a bibliographic review was carried out on the subject in question in databases of scientific articles. Our results showed a greater representation of the Euphorbiaceae, Leguminosae and Anacardiaceae families, as well as that the barks and leaves are the most used structures. The results found serve as support for other studies in pharmacobotany and ethnopharmacology.