Uso de Plantas com Fins Medicinais no Município de Barra – BA

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Resumo: Este trabalho foi realizado no Assentamento de Reforma Agrária Sítio Novo, Barra-BA, objetivando conhecer as espécies medicinais e suas formas de uso adotadas pela população local. Entre Abril e Maio de 2015 foram realizadas entrevistas com aplicação de questionários estruturados. Todos os entrevistados fazem uso de plantas medicinais e cultivam alguma espécie em suas residências, usam as plantas por tradição familiar e por se tratar de um remédio natural consomem principalmente quando estão doentes. Foram registradas 258 citações, nas quais foram relatadas a utilização de várias partes vegetais das 41 espécies, em 11 formas de preparo, com diferentes finalidades terapêuticas. As folhas e as cascas foram as partes mais utilizadas e os chás a principal forma de uso. As famílias Lamiaceae, Anacardiaceae, Myrtaceae e Rutaceae foram aquelas com maior representatividade e adoção medicinal. As espécies mais citadas foram a Cymbopogon citratus (Capim Santo -15,5%), Lantana camara L. (Camará -10,5%), Mentha sp. (Hortelã Miúdo -9,7%), Ocimum basilicum L. (Manjericão -5,4%) e Ruta graveolens L. (Arruda -4,6%) que corresponderam por 45,7% das citações. Entre as indicações terapêuticas citadas, destacam-se: doenças associadas ao sistema respiratório, indicações anti-inflamatórias, hipertensão, calmante e doenças associadas ao sistema digestivo. Nota-se que os moradores são detentores de um vasto conhecimento empírico relacionados à etnobotânica e as condições climáticas relacionadas ao manejo da flora da região e que o uso de plantas medicinais para fins terapêuticos é marcante, evidenciando que o uso popular de plantas medicinais está inserido significativamente nas esferas social e cultural dessa comunidade, o que assegurará a perpetuação dos costumes entre as próximas gerações. Palavras-chave: Farmacológicos. Lamiaceae. Cymbopogon citratus (DC.). Stapf.Abstract: This work was carried out in the Settlement Land Reform New Site, Barra-BA, in order to know the medicinal plants and their use forms adopted by local people. Between April and May 2015 interviews were conducted with structured questionnaires. All respondents make use of medicinal plants and cultivate some kind in their homes, use plants by family tradition and because it is a natural remedy consuming especially when they are sick. 258 citations were registered, in which were reported the use of various plant parts of 41 species, 11 types of preparation, with different therapeutic purposes. The leaves and bark were the most used parts and teas the main form of use. The Lamiaceae families, Anacardiaceae, Myrtaceae and Rutaceae were those with greater representation and medicinal adoption. The most cited species were Cymbopogon citratus (Capim Santo -15.5%), Lantana camara L. (Camará -10.5%), Mentha sp. (Mint Kid -9.7%), Ocimum basilicum L. (Basil -5.4%) and Ruta graveolens L. (Arruda -4.6%) which accounted for 45.7% of the citations. Among the therapeutic indications mentioned, include: diseases associated with respiratory, anti-inflammatory indications, h...

Analysis of the Variability of Therapeutic Indications of Medicinal Species in the Northeast of Brazil: Comparative Study

“…After applying the process of inclusion and exclusion of duplicate articles, 40 articles that presented therapeutic indications of the species common to the Quincuncá community and the different areas in the Northeast of Brazil, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Ceará, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Bahia, and Maranhão, with Caatinga, Cerrado, Carrasco, Atlantic Rainforest, and Amazonian vegetation, were selected [6, 7, 16, 28–64]. …”

“…Of the species, Stryphnodendron rotundifolium presented the highest mean RI, with an interval range of 0.97 to 2.00 and Bredemeyera brevifolia the lowest mean, with RI 2 = 0.29 and an interval from 0.17 to 0.44. Species such as Genipa americana (RI 2 = 0.66) and Lantana camara (RI 2 = 0.58) that presented low RI averages can be highlighted as having the maximum RI value in ethnobotanical surveys in the northeast, as demonstrated in the works of Cordeiro and Félix (2014) [57] and Guerra et al (2016) [64], respectively.…”

Chemical composition, antioxidant, antimicrobial activity, toxicity, genetic analysis and popular use of Eugenia luschnathiana(O. Berg) Klotzsch ex B.D.Jacks: a literature review

“…The popular use of E. luschnathiana was reported by (Guerra et al, 2016) in a study conducted with 250 inhabitants of the rural community settlement Reforma Agrária Sítio Novo, located in the State of Bahia, Brazil. Tea from the leaves was singularly used with an anti-thermal therapeutic indication, and presenting a Relative Importance (RI) value of 0.29.…”

“…The greater the number of indications for the plant, the greater its RI, suggesting that the low E. luschnathiana RI value presented in the cited Guerra study was related to its low consumption as a medicinal plant, and to the absence of studies regarding its chemical composition and pharmacological effects. Studies with species from the Myrtaceae family have shown higher RI values, such as Psidium guajava L and Eucalyptus globulus Labill (Lemos & Araujo, 2015;Guerra et al, 2016) reflecting their greater consumption as medicinal plants as compared to E. luschnathiana. The Importance Value Index (IVI) is used to characterize the relevance of a species in a community, being the sum of the abundance, frequency, and relative dominance of the species (Curtis & McIntosh, 1951).…”

“…It usually reaches about 2 to 5 meters in height, presenting white buds, and white or green flowers with yellowish globoseshaped fruits (de Lucena et al, 2014;Do Brasil, 2020) Extracts obtained from different species of the genus Eugenia were evaluated for their phytochemical properties, antioxidant activity, cytotoxicity, and antimicrobial activity. Information concerning biological properties is also found in ethnopharmacological studies ( Lemos & Araujo, 2015;Guerra et al, 2016). However, studies on the species E. luschnathiana are scarce, and therefore the aim of the present study was to develop a review of the literature regarding its geographic distribution, botanical properties, popular use, chemical composition, antioxidant activity, antimicrobial activity, cytotoxicity, and a genetic analysis.…”