2008
DOI: 10.5205/0201200802
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Uso de plantas medicinais pelos idosos em uma estratégia saúde da família

Abstract: This study about medicinal plants was done at a Santo Antônio's aged group in the Family's Health Estrategy in Pedras de Fogo city-Paraíba (PB), Brasil, with the purpose to rescue the popular's medicine traditions, valuing the acquired experiences, evaluating the risks and the benefits of its use and extending the therapeutically resources in the health primary attention with the interchange, between knowing scientific and popular creating a book of region own prescriptions. The data were collects through a qu… Show more

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“…Corroborating this finding, studies have observed this practice in more than 70% of the interviewed elderly population, mentioning the use of between 23 and 40 species of medicinal plants. [26][27] In this scenario, among the limitations mentioned by the elderly participants of this study, chronic conditions are present, with a predominance of arterial hypertension, in keeping with the research data in which 55.3% of the interviewed women referred to arterial hypertension, among other reported health problems. 22 The complexity that can be evidenced in the process of living and aging are results of the experiences and the singularity in the life of the individuals.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 71%
“…Corroborating this finding, studies have observed this practice in more than 70% of the interviewed elderly population, mentioning the use of between 23 and 40 species of medicinal plants. [26][27] In this scenario, among the limitations mentioned by the elderly participants of this study, chronic conditions are present, with a predominance of arterial hypertension, in keeping with the research data in which 55.3% of the interviewed women referred to arterial hypertension, among other reported health problems. 22 The complexity that can be evidenced in the process of living and aging are results of the experiences and the singularity in the life of the individuals.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 71%
“…O uso ornamental, mostrado em oito das 10 plantas catalogadas no Quadro 3, pode explicar parte das intoxicações acidentais brasileiras com plantas tóxicas. Entre os adultos, a intoxicação por plantas também é frequente, sendo causadas, principalmente, pelo uso inadequado de plantas medicinais, alucinógenas ou abortivas (SILVA; OLIVEIRA; ARAÚJO, 2008;VASCONCELOS et al, 2009;MENEZES et al, 2016). No período ano de 2013, 753 casos foram notificados, dos quais 478 casos (63%) ocorreram em indivíduos com faixa etária menor que 10 anos.…”
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“…Estudo de Silva et al 23 com 94 idosos evidenciou que a utilização de plantas medicinais é uma prática comum entre esses sujeitos, sendo que 90,4% dos idosos faziam o uso, desses, 85,9% eram do gênero feminino. Vários fatores, como a questão cultural quanto ao uso dos chás, o saber repassado de mãe para filha, o cuidado associado à figura feminina, podem se constituir em fatores que interferem nesse achado, no maior uso de chás pelas mulheres.…”
Section: Tratamentos Realizadosunclassified