What is it about?
The human populations that settled in floodplain regions started to have a very strong connection with the forest, knowing and exploring it, which allowed a greater contact with the vectors of tropical diseases such as malaria, Chagas disease, and tegumentary leishmaniasis, which are endemic diseases of these regions.
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Why is it important?
Considering the importance to rescue this knowledge from traditional communities and systematize it, this study aimed to performan ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological survey of medicinal plants used by riverside communities at the mouth of Mazagão River, in the State of Amapá.
Perspectives
A total of 130 medicinal species were identified, which were distributed in 116 genera and 57 families. accounted for the greatest number of species, totaling 48.83%of the sampled species, and 22.5%of the families were represented by only one species. In total, 95 native species of floodplain forest and 35 exotic or introduced species were mentioned
Rosângela do Socorro Sarquis
Universidade Federal do Amapa
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This page is a summary of: The Use of Medicinal Plants in the Riverside Community of the Mazagão River in the Brazilian Amazon, Amapá, Brazil: Ethnobotanical and Ethnopharmacological Studies, Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, April 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation,
DOI: 10.1155/2019/6087509.
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