Dispersores de plantas com potencial antiparasitário em arranjos familiares no médio sertão da Paraíba.

Abstract

Dispersion is something essential in the structure of a forest area, as the distribution, permanence of the populations of plants depends on this process. Since most of the seeds that are close to the mother plant, have a low success rate. Thus, the dispersers help to maintain the plants that are commonly used as herbal medicines by the population, due to the pressure suffered by these plants that are used both in the population and in animal husbandry. The objective of this work was to evaluate the plant population with antiparasitic effect in goat herds by the identification of their dispersers. In the construction of the systematic review the descriptors "Medicinal plant dispersers" and "Dispersers of medicinal plants" were used in the databases PUBMED, Scielo and Google Academic. In addition to the systematic review, a case study about the dispersers of medicinal plants was carried out in the “Patativa do Assaré” settlement, by means of semi-structured interviews. The systematic review identified three articles on the dispersers of medicinal plants with antiparasitic effect. 13 people were interviewed in the case study, 25 plant species were cited as having medicinal use, and the antiparasitic effect was mentioned. Thus, we emphasize the importance of dispersion studies, in order to increase the knowledge of the population regarding the existing resources in their properties and to improve already existing drugs.