Levantamento do uso de plantas medicinais no município de São Sebastião do Umbuzeiro-PB.

Abstract

Since the beginning, man has always sought in nature different forms of survival and among them is the use of medicinal plants in the cure of diseases, before that the present study aimed to carry out an ethnopharmacological survey in the municipality of São Sebastião do Umbuzeiro - PB. Ethnopharmacological data were collected in questionnaires through interviews with men and women in the city, totaling 50 respondents. 64 species of medicinal plants were cited, which are distributed in 38 families, with a greater representation of the Fabaceae family. The most cited plant species were Plectranthus barbatus Andrews (boldo), Mentha x villosa Huds (Miúdo mint), Cyimbopogon citratus Stapf. (sage grass) and Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E. br (lemongrass). The Value of Use (UV) and Percentage of concordance between informants (CUPc) of the species were calculated. The plants with the highest UV were Mentha x villosa Huds., Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E. Br.. Even with the diversity of allopathic medicines as a treatment for diseases that affect the population, there is still a small part of it, which perpetuates the traditional knowledge about the use of medicinal plants as well as transmit and make use of these, as a synonym for health and wellness.