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Levantamento etnobotânico das plantas utilizadas como medicinais por moradores do bairro Ponta Grossa, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

2006; Fundación Zoobotánica de Rio Grande do Sul; Volume: 61; Linguagem: Inglês

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Giovana Secretti Vendruscolo, Lilian Auler Mentz,

Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity

An ethnobotanical study searching for medicinal plants used by residents and the Community Health Agents from the Family Health Office of Ponta Grossa neighborhood, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul was carried out. The social and cultural information of all interviewers were established using structured interviews. The information about medicinal plants and their therapeutic uses were obtained by semi-structured interviews. The community people use 150 species, distributed in 59 botanical families. Most species are included in the Asteraceae and Lamiaceae families. Leaves and aerial parts are the portions of the plants most used and tea is the form mainly used. The diseases or symptoms most mentioned are those related to the digestive and nervous systems. The popular names were analyzed, where 56 species with ethno-homonyms and 73 species with true or false ethno-synonymous were found.