From inventories to the relations between traditional practice and the legal use of medicinal plants in settlements

Abstract

This  article  is  the  result  of  the  project  “Inventorying  medicinal  herbs  in settlements: relationships between traditionaland  legal uses of interest to the SUS –Unified Health  System”  financed  by  the  Productivity  and  Research  Program  by  the  Estácio  de Ribeirão  Preto  University  Center  and  the  NUPEDOR-Núcleo  de  Rural  Research  and Documentation / UNIARA. The development of the research took place in the Monte Alegre and Bela Vista do Chibarro settlements, in Araraquara / SP, with the aim of inventorying the popular  use  of  medicinal  herbs  by  residents  according  to  the  RENISUS -National  List  of Medicinal Plants of Interest to SUS. As a methodology, two work moments were adopted, the snowball methodology to identify the participating lots, and, in the second moment, technical visits and field observation. As a result, we highlight the inventories with the herbs produced n the lots, uses and cultivation practices common to the settlers, in addition to the mapping of backyards  and  the  relationship  of  traditional  knowledge  compared  to  the  practice  applicable by  SUS.  It  is  concluded  that  a  research  contributed  to  the  search  for  the  formation  of associative  groups  to  generate  work  and  income,  especially  for  women,  and  the  constitution of a CSO of a group of settlers and settlers.