Utilização de plantas medicinais no tratamento dos sintomas provocados pelas viroses: Dengue, Zika e Chikungunya

Abstract

The adoption of medicinal plants as a treatment of diseases is present throughout human history. It represents, therefore, a way to prevent, to treat and to cure illnesses and symptoms. (MORAES; SANTANA, 2001). This research aims to analyze the usage of medicinal plants in the symptoms`s treatment of arboviruses Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya in the cases reported from the first quarter of 2016 to nowadays in the city of Timbaúba - PE, when these viruses reached high rates of infection. The study is a cross-sectional, descriptive and quantitative study using a semi-structured questionnaire, associated by a Free and Informed Consent Form, applied to patients who were notified with symptoms of the diseases investigated in this work and who used medicinal plants to treat the symptoms, in the municipality of Timbaúba-PE, from the first quarter of 2016. The data will be processed in the Microsoft Office Excel version 2010 and in the Microsoft office word version 2010. The results will be expressed in simple and percentage frequencies, with subsequent graphs and tables elaboration. This work will also contribute to the evaluation of the efficacy and safety of the use of medicinal plants in the treatment of the symptoms of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya, thus promoting a new therapeutic option for the symptomatology of these diseases. Furthermore, this is an affordable treatment`s alternative, given its low cost. On this wise, the research also intends to promote the patients quality of life improvement.