Resgate do conhecimento popular na utilização de plantas medicinais da Floresta Amazônica na promoção da saúde humana e animal

Abstract

The popular traditional knowledge over time is what keeps the information about the healing benefits of various medicinal plants in Brazil, especially in the Amazon and its maintenance through the generations so as not to lose time. Thus aiming to perform the rescue of traditional knowledge about "living pharmacy" that exists in the Amapá in its protected areas and rural areas through the use of traditional communities, it was proposed the preparation of a textbook of herbal herbal buoyed by applying 400 semi-structured questionnaires to check the frequency of use of medicinal plants both in the use of diseases in humans and pets and farm animals, and 200 questionnaires in urban areas and 200 questionnaires in rural areas, with this diagnosis was suggested if the community installing a demonstrative technical unit of cultivation of medicinal plants in the headquarters of the Association of Traditional Midwives in the Orangery Jari - ASPARTALAJ, involving students in the technical course in the practice environment. We conducted interviews to verify the use of the main species used by traditional midwives to have them as key multipliers of this knowledge together with the municipality of Jari Orangery community. Also making use of survey data from research institutions studying the benefits of medicinal plants and even produce medicines that are marketed to people with a scientific guarantee of healing and effectiveness, serving for the same as a showcase of the potential of medicinal plants . The Valuation and invigoration of traditional knowledge through field days, exchange of experiences between farmers and students, demonstrating ways of planting species and demonstrations of the best forms of propagation for each type of plant and its proper management. Questionnaires and record species on farms for this qualitative research were applied by students of technical course on environment, these statistics were tabulated for visualization of most species of plants used, later serving as information to direct the search for the species that are most needed by these populations.