Plantas Medicinais usadas pela População do Município de Sertãozinho – Paraíba: um Recurso Didático no Ensino Médio.

Abstract

The present work had as general objective to do a historical rescue regarding the medicinal plants used in the Municipal district of Sertãozinho, Paraíba, besides making available for the school community a collection of parts of the plants that you/they are used as medicinal and a biological collection lives of some of these plants. For so much it was made a bibliographical research on the medicinal plants, as well as, risings were accomplished in informal conversations close to local population (merchants, raizeiros, people of the rural and urban area) and to the students of the Escola E. E. F. M. João of Freitas Mouzinho, regarding the medicinal plants and their forms of uses. The final part of the methodology was regarding production of the didactic collection with some more representative medicinal plants in the area, being a collection dehydrated with parts of the plants and a biological collection lives, done close to through plantings of seedlings of some of those plants the students in the own school. The results showed 64 species of plants used by the local community as medicinal, of these, 28 were mentioned with larger emphasis, being these then, chosen to do part of the dehydrated collection and of the biological collection he/she lives. The families with larger representativeness in the consultation were Lamiaceae (19%.) and Asteraceae (17%.), with (7%) they are Liliaceae, Euphobiaceae and Verbenaceae, the other families add committees 43% and they were below 5% of citation. To reveal the most important species the consensus degree it was considered among the answers of the informers. The rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L) and Boldo (Peumus boldus) they stood out as the species with the largest number of citations, being these also the ones that obtained the largest number of indications of therapeutic uses. The peels and the roots went to the parts predominantly consumed. The didactic collection is initially composed by 28 species and it will be enlarged along the time by the students. In the same way that the small stonemason with the planting of the seedlings of some of the studied medicinal plants will continue being watered and taken care by the students and other people of the school. The data obtained in this research proved a diversity of species of our flora or of plants introduced with medicinal potential and they reinforce the importance that the biodiversity has on the rural and urban communities of the interior, as well as to emphasize the students close to day by day those information that it is part of the of the local community.