Plantas medicinais: os saberes locais entre os camponeses da comunidade da Fazenda Engenho Novo, São Gonçalo, RJ

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Lages, Luiz Henrique Marinho
• Orientador(a): Santos, Marcelo Guerra
• Banca de defesa: Alentejano, Paulo Roberto Raposo , Quinteiro, Mariana Martins da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino de Ciências, Ambiente e Sociedade
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Faculdade de Formação de Professores
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Etnobiologia; Conhecimento biológico; Plantas Medicinais; Assentamento Rural; Narrativa Episódica
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Ethnobiology; Folk Biology; Medicinal Plants; Rural Settlement; Episodic Narrative
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::BIOLOGIA GERAL
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/12095

The Fazenda Engenho Novo settlement (FEN), in São Gonçalo municipality, Rio de Janeiro state, shelters about 143 peasant families, from various places, that uses a group of local knowledge about medicinal plants. Some of these peasants are known as local specialists in medicinal plants use. The aim of the present research is understand all the processes related to local knowledge about medicinal plants by FEN peasants, especially finding out the local specialists, survey the medicinal plants used by them and perceive how the medicinal plants knowledge is built in the community. During research´s execution a participant observation was done in peasants´ day to day, mainly during meetings of Trabalhadores Rurais de São Gonçalo syndicate. Since first contact with certain informants, applied snowball methodology. Contacted informants passed through an initial interview that collected profile data and each of them cited a free list of medicinal plants. A second interview with the informants took place, using episodic narrative methodology. The most cited ethnospecies were saião, guaco, santa maria, aroeira, cana do brejo, amora, boldo, quebra-pedra, erva cidreira. Most prescriptions were for digestive and immune system, but mostly to alleviate symptoms. The plant parts most used were leaves, tea was the main mode of preparation and the most of the plants is harvested in the backyards. Data from the interviews show different learning standards throughout informants´ life.