Uso de plantas medicinais como instrumento de conscientização: responsabilidade social e ambiental

Abstract

In Brazil the medicinal plants are used with little or none scientific evidence. This study had as the object the people knowledge and the awareness of the correct use of the medicinal plants with Escola Rural João Pessoa 4° grade students families, at São Sepé Municipal District(RS, Brazil). During the study, questionnaires were applied to identify ways of obtaining and using medicinal plants, use motive, cultivation and preparing ways. About 20 plants were cited by the interviewed; all of them use the plants as the first resource in case of light considered health problems. If the community involvement at the proposed project activities and development in class, the actions created by the project (debates, regarding material turned in, games and argumentations) contributed to stimulate the interest to the topic; as a consequence, we can say that the school community were touched in relation to the problems involving the use of those plants, the deal and care demanded for these resource maintenance and, as extension, to the care with the natural resources, in a general way.