Estudo Etnobotânico qualitativo com profissionais e usuários do sistema único de saúde de Juína – MT, Brasil

Abstract

The human being has always established an intimate relationship with medicinal plants for the treatment of diseases. The objective was to analyze the perception of nurses and users of Family Health Strategies (FHS) Juína-MT, about Phytotherapy. The cross-sectional study was used in order to collect information, enable the description of knowledge, with sampling simple random, by lot. With the questions: do you consider phytotherapy an important practice of use? With whom did you learn about the use of the medicinal plant? Which medicinal plant (s) do you know? How do you get the medicinal plant for use? The research took place from Sep to Oct / 2017, approved by the Ethics Committee. The information obtained showed that the majority of the participants use medicinal plants, showing that the insertion of phytotherapy in the Unified Health System (SUS) was favorable, the majority learned about phytotherapy in the family roots. The most used medicinal plants are preferably Allium sativum L .. (garlic) and Fredericia chica (Bonpl.), Crijiru, for urinary infections, kidneys, hypertension and diabetes. Ethnobotanical knowledge greatly contributes to the effectiveness of national and state policies on medicinal and herbal plants in SUS, ensuring the effectiveness of the promotion, protection and recovery of the population's health in a safe and effective manner.