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Levantamento do uso de plantas medicinais na Comunidade Quilombola Negros do Osso, Pesqueira - PE
(2022-10-04) Lins, Jully Stephane de Brito Cavalcanti; Ramos, Eduardo Henrique da Silva; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0508987795451323; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1420351666650618
Since ancient times, man has resorted to interaction with the environment due to diseases that have arisen, to survive, to cure their ills. Therefore, the present study had as main objective an ethnobotanical survey in the quilombola community Negro do Osso located in the municipality of Pesqueira-Pernambuco. Ethnopharmacological data were collected through a quantitative survey, using a questionnaire with questions asked through interviews with men and women in the community, totaling 43 interviewed. The results obtained were used to calculate the Use Value (VU) of the cited species and the importance of use of a botanical family, in addition to the classification of the main families and species cited. Based on popular names in scientific databases. In view of the results obtained, a total of 26 species of medicinal plants were observed, distributed in 18 botanical families. Fabaceae, Rutaceae and Lamiaceae families received the highest number of citations. The most cited species were Cymbopogon citratus Stapf, Lippia alba (Mill.) N.E. Br., Mentha sp. and Plectanthus ornatus Codd. The plants with the highest VU were Zingiber officinale, Citrus limon (L.) Osbeck and Dusphania ambrosioides. The recording of ethnopharmacological information from the research is important for the conservation of local knowledge acquired over time by the population. Plant resources are important, as at certain times they become the only resources available to treat conditions that afflict the community