SILVA, C. G.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2816715408783864; SILVA, Cleomária Gonçalves da.
Resumo:
This work aimed to carry out a study of ethnobotany from medicinal plants, with students
from a rural community on level II Elementary School. For it, it was investigated: popular
knowledge, their crops, acquisitions, parts of the plants used, way of preparation and the
indicated number of plants per students. The data were collected in September 2017, based on
semi-structured questionnaire, with 33 students from the 6th and 7th grades, aged between 11
and 17 years old during their science classes, in the Municipal Unit of Primary School and
Secundary School José Bonifácio Barbosa de Andrade, located in Pio X district, Sumé – PB
city. The results showed that 31 students (94%) could identify medicinal plants and 2 students
(6%) did not know. In the acquisition of medicinal plants 27 students (82%) acquire in the
forests, 22 students (67%) on backyards. Plant parts, 30 students (90%) use the peel, the
leaves obtained 28 indications (85%), the roots 23 (70%); in the form of preparation: teas, 32
students (99%), syrup 25 (75%) and in natura 13 (39%). It was mentioned 38 species with 36
genera of medicinal plants among those interviewed. Among 25 botanical families, the largest
number of species were: Anacardiaceae and Fabaceae with four (04) respectively, Lamiaceae
and Rutaceae with three (03) each, Asteraceae with two (02), where there were (18) native
and (20) cultivated. It was verified that even the students having access to conventional
medicines, many of them keep the teachings passed on by their relatives, where still there is
the tradition of searching on forests and cultivating medicinal plants in their backyards.
Therefore, whether the schools are urban or rural, it would be interesting to teach popular
knowledge, their traditional knowledge, as a way of pass along the study of contextualized
ethnobotany.