Plantas medicinais: indicação popular de uso no tratamento de hipertensão arterial sistêmica (HAS)

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Gisele Aparecida Dionísio [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Feliciano, Luciana Maria [UNESP], Diniz, Renato Eugênio da Silva [UNESP], Alves, Maria José Queiróz de Freitas [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://ojs.unesp.br/index.php/revista_proex/article/view/377; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134426
• topic: Phytotherapy; Hypertensive patients; Informative booklet; Medicina herbaria; Pacientes hipertensos; Folleto informativo; Fitoterapia; Pacientes hipertensos; Cartilha informativa

The aim of this study is to investigate the spontaneous use of medicinal plants by volunteer patients in the treatment of hypertension and to determine the most used plants in this situation. Data were collected through a questionnaire and a semi-structured guided interview applied to patients from a health center in the Midwest region of the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Quantitative analysis identified a high number of hypertensive patients spontaneously using herbal treatment. The referred plants were identified by the Herbarium Botu and researched in the literature as to their therapeutic actions. The biggest mistake was observed in the misuse of the Bilberry for the treatment of hypertension, which reveals that health professionals and the community in general should be more careful. As a result we have published an informative booklet, with emphasis on hypertension concepts and on the use of medicinal plants as an alternative therapy method for this disease in order to provide scientific knowledge and scientific research evidence to this practice.