Resgate etnobotânico de plantas medicinais e validação da sua atividade antibacteriana

Abstract

The use of plant is a common practice, especially for rural communities. One way to get this data on medicinal plants is through ethnobotanical surveys. It is through ethnobotany that seeks knowledge and the rescue of traditional knowledge particularly related to the use of flora resources. The study aims to rescue the ethnobotanical knowledge of informants on medicinal plants of Pelotas and Capão do Leão and validate the in vitro antibacterial activity of the plants that hold this end, against the major bacteria isolated from bovine udder with mastitis. An ethnobotanical rescue with three informants was conducted. We identified 83 plant species belonging to 40 botanical families, with the Asteraceae and Lamiaceae families the most representative in number of species and the sheet of the most used plant. Of the 83 plants identified, 26 were cited as antimicrobial and validated through the microdilution technique in broth. There were 16 plants that have some antibacterial action in the face of bacteria tested. We can conclude that the informants use a wide variety of medicinal plants both in healing and in disease prevention and the pariparoba species (Piper reginelli (Miq.) C. DC.) And bitch theta (Zanthoxylum astrigerum (RSCowan) PG Waterman ) are the most promising among the different and may be performed later in vivo studies with the purpose of determining its effect on the prevention of bovine mastitis.