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Plantas medicinais brasileiras usadas pelo Dr. João Ferreyra da Rosa na “Constituição Pestilencial de Pernambuco” no fi nal do século XVII

2008; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA; Volume: 21; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5007/2175-7925.2008v21n4p39

2175-7925

Argus Vasconcelos de Almeida, Cláudio Augusto Gomes da Câmara, Érika Alves Tavares Marques,

History of Medicine and Tropical Health

Brazilian medicinal plants used by the Dr. João Ferreyra da Rosa according to his “Treatise on Pestilence in Pernambuco” at the end of the 17th century. João Ferreyra da Rosa’s “Treatise on Pestilencein Pernambuco”, published in 1694 was the fi rst document on yellow fever, its symptoms and treatment, and it described the phytomedicines used at the time. Rosa described a hundred medicinal plants used to treat the epidemic; most of them came already prepared from Europe, since the majority of Portuguese physicians rejected the indigenous therapeutic knowledge. However, later, due to the lenght and adverse conditions of maritime trevel, leading to losses in the effectiveness of the active ingredients of such phytotherapeutic products, doctors were obliged to employ native medicinal plants in their treatments. The Brazilian medicinal plants used in the treatment of the fi rst epidemic of yellow fever in Brazil (17th century) had been brought up to date from the taxonomic point of view, and were comparable with those used in popular medicine today. As part of the phytotherapeutic treatment of yellow fever at the end of the 17th century, Rose made use of thefollowing medicinal plants: copaíba, macela, maracujá-mirim, red aroeira, angélico and almécega.