An ethnobotanical study was carried out for this study aimed at understanding the medicinal importance of malagueta / chili pepper (C. frutescens L.) in the daily life of the people of Cabeça D'Onça, an area in the Amazon River floodplain. The community of approximately 330 residents is situated in the municipality of Santarém, Pará State. In total, 116 people from 70 households were interviewed for this work. Information regarding the medicinal uses of these peppers was collected in semi-structured interviews and compiled in detail. In the second phase of the study, structured interviews were carried out in 40 households with 80 people (40 couples) to determine the most commonly-known uses of the peppers in the study area. Over 50% of those interviewed cited the use of the malagueta in curing certain illnesses reputed to be caused by contact with water from the Amazon River, including 'pano-branco', and 'impinge' (both diseases of the skin treated with the leaves) and rheumatism (treated with the fruit). A comparison of the data obtained in this study with published literature reveals strong indigenous influence in their medicinal use.
The Amazon region has a large sociobiodiversity, where lives people with traditional knowledge about the uses of its natural resources. The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in 1992 recognized the autonomy of each nation over its genetic resources and the rights of traditional populations about the knowledge of the use of these natural resources. In 2001 it was published the law M.P. 2.186-16/2001 which created the Conselho Nacional de Gestão do Patrimônio Genético (CGEN) and the first rules about access to genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in Brazil. Since his creation, the actions of CGEN have received criticism from various sectors, both private and public, and, unlike its initial proposal, has become one of the main obstacles of ethnobotanical studies, the bureaucracy, the long process analysis and communication difficulties with this organ.
Neste artigo é apresentada uma descrição do ensino da disciplina Etnobotânica, em nível de graduação e pós-graduação, na Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA), UNESP – Botucatu – SP, com os antecedentes de sua formulação, seu desenrolar e os resultados obtidos desde seu início até o presente. Diferentes atividades foram desenvolvidas durante esse período, sendo também destacados os projetos de pesquisa e extensão, bem como os trabalhos acadêmicos e científicos produzidos. São apresentados os desafios gerais na área e na FCA.
<p> Neste artigo é apresentada uma descrição do ensino da disciplina Etnobotânica, em nível de graduação e pós-graduação, na Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA), UNESP – Botucatu – SP, com os antecedentes de sua formulação, seu desenrolar e os resultados obtidos desde seu início até o presente. Diferentes atividades foram desenvolvidas durante esse período, sendo também destacados os projetos de pesquisa e extensão, bem como os trabalhos acadêmicos e científicos produzidos. São apresentados os desafios gerais na área e na FCA.</p><p> </p>
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