Uso de plantas medicinales en comunidades indígenas asentadas en un bosque siempreverde piemontano del cantón Santa Clara, Amazonía Ecuatoriana

Sandra Estefanía Andrade Yucailla; Julio Cesar Vargas Burgos; Víctor Hugo González Rivera; Manuel Enrique Romero Herrera; Verónica Cristina Andrade Yucailla

doi:10.59410/RACYT-v08n02ep14-0123

Authors

Sandra Andrade Yucailla Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Julio César Vargas Burgos Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Victor González Rivera Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Manuel Romero Herrera Universidad Estatal Amazónica
Verónica Andrade Yucailla Universidad Estatal Amazónica https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7909-2128

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59410/RACYT-v08n02ep14-0123

Keywords:

Disease, Ethnobotany, phytotherapy, Medicinal plants

Abstract

Indigenous peoples have a fundamental role in knowledge and conservation of the biodiversity of medicinal plants, the objective of the work was to identify the use of medicinal plants since ethnobotany is a tool that allows to diagnose its application in traditional phytotherapy in Santa Clara, also for its central location in the Amazon belongs to the evergreen Piemontano forest. The study information was based on a survey that was applied to 30 families from the Rey de Oriente and San Juan de Piatua communities who practice phytotherapy; Among the questions of the use of medicinal plants were (name, method of preparation, part used and dosage) the plants were grouped according to the use of the diseases and the most important species were defined; The 10 most frequent plants are Uncaria tomentosa (cat's claw), Ocimum campechianum (basil), Bryophyllum pinnatum (air leaf), Scoparia dulcis (tiatina), Justicia pectoralis (linden), Plantago major (plantain), Ilex guayusa (guayusa ), Urera laciniata (napi nara), Aerva sanguinolenta (escancel), Chenopodium ambrosioides (paico), for different diseases, 25 species of medicinal plants were identified, of which the leaves are the most used part of the plant with 70% and the mode of preparation is by infusion (64%), 80% of the respondents were men who dominate the ancestral practice and have ages between 18 - 70 years and 50% are illiterate, the ancestral knowledge of plants was recorded Medicines in health-disease function that afflict the Amazonian rural populations.

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