A importância das plantas medicinais para o Povoado Folha Grossa no município de Tocantinópolis

Abstract

The present work aims to research and show the importance of medicinal plants within the Folha Grossa community in the city of Tocantinópolis, from the oldest to the youngest inhabitants of the Povoado, observing the changes that have occurred to the use of natural medications over the years. After starting from the social identity of the inhabitants with the medicinal plants highlighting the importance that it has for the place, and for that it had as object of study a detailed description on each plant and for what it serves and what benefits to the people that uses each type of her, in the thick leaf settlement, also highlighting from its emergence to the present day. The applied methodology was a bibliographical research based on books on natural medicines, a unique Brazilian health system and also ethnographic research carried out through interviews with residents of the Folha Grossa community who used and used some for the health of themselves and some family member . In fact, the work even highlights that the residents who always wore had their faith over them that could be cured if they took it. The work was based on the contributions of some leading authors such as Maria Christina de Mello and Anne Gély, Júnior Cirino Corrêa and Marianne Christina Scheffer, E. Fajardo. In order to bring this contribution of how the changes and culture of a certain place changes with the passage of time, but one thing that does not stop is these sources of contribution that in the case of medicinal plants will always be alive in the lives of many residents of the Folha Grossa Village.