Survey of Medicinal plants used by residents of the Santo Antônio da Fartura settlement, Campo Verde - MT

• Autor(a) principal: Campos, Arnaldo Gonçalves de
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Coelho, Maria de Fátima Barbosa, Pimenta, Alex Caetano, Lopes, Gilvanice Soares Fernandes, Sousa, Vanessa Ferreira de, Facco, Jonicley Alves, Rossi, Mayara, Mello, Geison Jader
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/22876
• topic: Fitoterápicos; Conhecimento popular; Plantas medicinais.; Phytotherapeutics; Popular knowledge; Medicinal plants.; Hierbas medicinales; Conocimiento popular; Plantas medicinales.

Ethnobotanical research works with traditional knowledge generated in communities from their experiences with the use of medicinal plants in order to preserved and reversed in improvements in the quality of life for contemporary society and for future generations. The present work investigate the knowledge that residents of the Settlement Santo Antônio da Fartura, Campo Verde-MT, have about medicinal plants. The research was carried out from August 2015 to July 2016. Data collection occurred through interviews, using a questionnaire, consisting of 35 open and closed questions. and a portable recording device was adopted. The target audience investigated consisted of a total of 25 informants, 98% of individuals surveyed said that they resort directly to the use of medicinal plants when they are sick, all of them reported knowing native species and most cultivate domestic medicinal species in the backyard. 138 species were surveyed, distributed in 51 botanical families. The three most representative plant families in the research were, respectively: Asteraceae, Fabaceae, Lamiaceae. The studied community uses a great diversity of plant species for medicinal purposes and has traditionality regarding the use of medicinal plants, considering that the family was the main vehicle for transferring this knowledge to the current generation.