Fala Natureza! Teu intérprete te escuta! (Literatura e meio ambiente em Guimarães Rosa)

Chaves, Teresinha Gema Lins Brandão

doi:10.11606/t.8.2010.tde-07052010-100141

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“…J.G. Rosa grew in a small town in the very countryside of Brazil, and had since his childhood strong interest in natural sciences (Chaves, 2013). From 1931 to 1933, he was a "hinterland medical doctor" in small towns in Minas Gerais, and he certainly had contact with the medicinal plants used by the population.…”

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Useful Brazilian plants under the view of the writer-naturalist João Guimarães Rosa

Chaves

Ricardo

Paula-Souza

et al. 2015

Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia

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BJP 137 1-8 Revista Brasileira de Farmacognosia xxx (2015) xxx-xxx w w w . s b f g n o s i a . o r g . b r / r e v i s t a Original Article Useful Brazilian plants under the view of the writer-naturalist João a b s t r a c tThis study shows the results of a wide but non-exhaustive review on plants cited in the literacy work of the writer-naturalist João Guimarães Rosa (J.G. Rosa). Information about popular names and use of plants were recovered through a review in seven works of the author. The assignment of the scientific names was based in other previous ethnobotanical studies performed in similar areas of Cerrado in Minas Gerais state. For each species, data about their presence in the Brazilian Official Pharmacopoeia, or use for preparing commercial products were checked. A total of 964 popular names for plants were recovered, 59 of them being more frequently cited. From the total citations, 57 native species have their use described by the author but curiously, only thirteen are referred to as medicinal. It is assumed that the literature from J.G. Rosa is very rich in data about the utility of the plants from the Cerrado; however, the present work shows that his interest was rather the literary (poetic) creation, and we demystify that supposition.

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“…A massive knew how to combine his medical knowledge with his role as a poet-naturalist. He discoursed about many aspects of the Cerrado in his books and was concerned with the predatory exploitation that was already occurring in the decade of 1950 (Chaves, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%