O uso medicinal da caatinga e sua relação com a comunidade do Povoado Cruz – Delmiro Gouveia – AL

Abstract

The caatinga biome is considered by scholars to be an exclusively Brazilian biome and covers 10% of the national territory, being present in the following states: Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and Minas Gerais. More than 17% of the Caatinga biome is present in the State of Alagoas according to data from the National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), completely the entire Alagoan hinterland where approximately 158,941 inhabitants live and depend exactly on all the resources that the Caatinga biome offers for the survival including plants that throughout history have been discovered as a cure for so many ills classified by medicinal plants. Within this reality, Delmiro Gouveia is inserted in the Caatinga biome and the Cruz municipality of the same village houses 70 families declared quilombolas and non-quilombolas and in every family even if a member has already made or makes some use of these plants or because of the need or the ease of finding, most even cultivate some in their own backyard and it was possible to understand how the residents of the community use these endemic plants of the Caatinga for medicinal use and how they acquire them through a qualitative quantitative research carried out in loco with an applied questionnaire and oral interviews carried out. with the villagers.