bachelorThesis
Principios de la cosmovisión andina relacionados con el uso de plantas medicinales en la parroquia de Sayausí, cantón Cuenca
Fecha
2016Autor
Ordóñez Vélez, Christian Giovanny
Oñate Álvarez, Pedro Andrés
Institución
Resumen
Background: Sayausí, despite its development in the last 20 years Andean ancestral customs still remain, such as the use of medicinal plants: preventive and therapeutic resources in health.
Objetive: To know the handling of medicinal plants in the town of Sayausí according to the principles of the Andean world.
Materials and Methods: A qualitative and intercultural approach. Studies the use of medicinal plants under the principles of the Andean world, with the sages of the community. Theoretical basis for data analysis: the narrative design, creating concepts and interpretations from the information obtained from the wise. Techniques used: interviews. Instruments: forms with open questions, recordings and photographs.
The interviews were drafted using quotations, codes and memos, you processed with the Atlas program; the main categories grouped according taxonomies; supplemented with information tables and figures.
Results: Yachak explained in their own words and experiences the five principles: relationality, reciprocity, correspondence, complementarity and parity. In its rationality everything works as a holistic process, involving all the components of the universe. The heal mountains is a real ritual includes principles, plants, body and spirit. In the educational process involved the wise: learning, Don and need. Plants have three main functions: healing, feeding and sacred element. Ways to classify plants were gender, shape, color, and thermal state. Mount collection, preparation and administration are the three stages of the healing process.