Concepções e práticas sobre plantas medicinais: um estudo com alunos do ensino médio

Abstract

Since the antique, until this moment, the humanity uses medicinal plants in many situations: shelter, clothes, health etc. In Brazil, since 2006, we have the medicinal plants and herbal national politcs, whose objectives are to guarantee the safe acess and the national use of medicinal plants and herbals, promoting the sustentable use of the biodiversity, the development of the productive chain and of the national industry. In school, is extremely relevant the random and the valorization of the medicinal plants knowledge. In the presente moment, with the synthetics medicines, the young people doesn´t have interest in talking with your grandparents or other people about the medicinal plants knowledge, so it is important prevent them from being lost with new habits. Pondered it, the present project has as objective investigate the conceptions and pratics related to the medicinal plants of the high school students of one public school. It will be a qualitative research and will be used questionarys, field diarys and teorical-pratic classes for the data collect. Tha datas analyses will be made by the contents collect. The project was well received by the school community, and the objectives were successfully achieved.