Plantas medicinais do nordeste: do conhecimento popular aos benefícios à saúde

Abstract

The Caatinga biome, which is predominant in the northeast of Brazil, is rich in flora species, and many of the plants that make it up are used by people as therapeutic and medicinal plants, through the ingestion of teas, the use of compresses, direct application to the skin, etc. With this in mind, the general aim of this final course is to highlight the importance of exploring medicinal plants in the north-east of Brazil. Its specific objectives are to understand what medicinal plants are and to explore some species of flora from the Northeast used by the population as a form of treatment for health problems. The methodological approach adopted was a bibliographical and qualitative study of the specialized literature on the subject, where searches were carried out on SCIELO, BVS and Google Scholar. The results show that exploring the wealth of medicinal plants in the Northeast is relevant to the social and health sectors.