BANDEIRA, Alberto Salgado.
Resumo:
The Ethnobotany is concerned with the study of knowledge and concepts developed
by any company about the plant world, encompassing both the way a social group
classifies plants and use such plants. On the other hand, in a broad sense, the
Ethnovet can be conceptualized as science preserves and values the knowledge of
popular practices, used for the treatment and prevention of diseases that affect
animals. It is likely that the use of medicinal plants as medicine is as old as man
himself, being more evident in developing countries, where most of the poor do not
have access to pharmacy medicines. The present study was to evaluate the overall
ethnoknowledge on the use of medicinal plants in the municipalities of the 14th
Administrative Region of Enterprise Technical Assistance and Rural Extension of the
State of Paraíba, headquartered in the city of Pombal, in the backlands of Paraiba.
The study was sponsored by a field research of descriptive with a qualitative
approach. As a tool for data collection used a previously structured questionnaire
with objective and subjective questions. By this, it was found that over 90% of
respondents make use of medicinal herbs in the treatment of diseases in humans
and over 60% perform this type of treatment associated with honey bees. The plants
most used by respondents were: balm, chamomile, lavender, lemongrass, and mint
mastruz. Most respondents said that use of Africanized honey bee. Medicinal plants
used in the treatment of diseases in humans reached a cure average over 90% of
respondents. In use for media animals reached 50% and the use of medicinal plants
associated with honey obtained an average of 48% of respondents.
