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| Authors: | M.F.B. Coelho, M.A. de Brito |
| Keywords: | cerrado, etnoconhecimento, plantas medicinais |
Abstract:
The Buritizal region is located at 70 km east from Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso State, Brazil.
The local people in this region knows deeply the plant resource available and use these plants for medicine.
The original vegetation (Cerrado) is under deforestation pressure for firewood collect, cattle ranching and agriculture.
The objectives of this paper are to collect plant materials for identification and study the traditional knowledge concerned to this resource.
In 1994 were accomplished the first survey in the region, aiming to stablish initial contacts with the population.
From September up to October 1994 five field work were performed with informants that knew deeply about the medicine use of local plants and were collected seeds for seed bank and floral structures for taxonomic identification. 58 species from 32 botanical families were use by local people for circulation, respiratory, renal, and urinary systems diseases.
Leguminosae, Euphorbiaceae and Vochysiaceae were the families more frequently quoted.
There is a high diversity of medicinal plants species in Buritizal Community and the local knowledge is very important to further scientific investigation.
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