Etnoconhecimento da utilização de plantas medicinais nos municípios polarizados por Pombal - PB.

Abstract

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.