Medicinal gardens in rural communities in Southeastern Brazil
uses and risks for primary healthcare
Abstract
This paper sought to identify the medicinal plants cultivated in a communal medicinal plant garden in Casimiro de Abreu, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil, and access its utilization and importance for healthcare to the local population based on interviews with the garden’s administrator, whose recommendations and instructions on how to prepare the remedies used are trusted by the visitors of the garden. Plants that treat illnesses related to the respiratory system are most sought after. The free use of the garden by the local community, associated with the small initial investment, points to the viability of this public initiative and the value of traditional knowledge, what must be taken with special care, because of the potential or reported risks of the use of some of them, since only 17 among 80 plant species are reported as safe for human use. Some kind of toxic effects were reported to 22 species, and the majority of them, 41 species, are still unknown concerning their toxicological risks.
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