Coleção viva de plantas medicinais como estratégia de divulgação e de formação em práticas integrativas de saúde

Abstract

Brazil has the richest flora in the world. Therefore, collections of living plants are important as they ensure the botanical description of species, facilitate the tracking of those with potential medicinal use and consequently facilitate reliable access and correct use of these. They also subsidize the manufacture of herbal medicines, promoting their sustainable use and helping to develop research. Within this, the Yanten Popular Health Center has a small space dedicated to the collection of live plants, which can be better used. This project aimed to develop a proposal for the reorganization of the living collection of medicinal plants present at the Yanten Popular Health Center, with the insertion of an interpretative trail. To this end, information was collected about the 33 plants used in integrative health practices promoted by the center. From the research, texts were created containing the information collected. Next, the current route of the trail was adapted, promoting accessibility to the site for people in wheelchairs (PWD) and a suggestion to reorganize the garden spaces that contain the collection of living plants. At the end of the research carried out and development of the texts, QR codes were created that will be printed on species identification plates for remote access to the texts prepared.