Medicinal Plant Knowledge Richness and Sharing in Northeastern Brazil

Determining how knowledge of medicinal plants is distributed in a community has been a challenge in the field of ethnobotany in recent years. Comparing the richness of knowledge and levels of sharing of such information is required in order to understand the patterns of knowledge and use of medicina...

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description Determining how knowledge of medicinal plants is distributed in a community has been a challenge in the field of ethnobotany in recent years. Comparing the richness of knowledge and levels of sharing of such information is required in order to understand the patterns of knowledge and use of medicinal plants in traditional communities. This study evaluates the richness and level of knowledge sharing of medicinal plants among the inhabitants of a rural community in the Caatinga region of Pernambuco, Brazil. Knowledge richness and sharing was measured by the knowledge richness index (KRI) and the knowledge sharing index (KSI), which are simple tools to assess the distribution of local knowledge. We found that the community sustains a pharmacopoeia rich in medicinal plants, but that this plant knowledge is not uniformly distributed among community members. Based on the calculated indices, a significant relationship between the richness of knowledge, gender, and age of informants was not discovered. However, occupation was an important factor in the knowledge of medicinal plants, as residents with jobs related to land use had a greater knowledge in this area. The study also indicated that the formation of experts in the community, based on either knowledge of a large number of plants or of exclusive knowledge of particular plants, did not have a direct relationship with age or gender. Compreender como está distribuído o conhecimento sobre plantas medicinais em uma comunidade é um dos desafios da etnobotânica nos últimos anos. Aliado a isso, comparar riquezas e níveis de compartilhamento dessas informações faz-se necessário para definir os padrões de conhecimento e uso de plantas medicinais em comunidades tradicionais. Este trabalho objetiva avaliar a riqueza de conhecimento sobre plantas medicinais e o nível de compartilhamento do conhecimento entre os habitantes de uma comunidade rural na Caatinga pernambucana, Nordeste do Brasil. A riqueza e compartilhamento do conhecimento foram medidos através do índice de riqueza do conhecimento (KRI) e do índice de compartilhamento do conhecimento (KSI), os quais são índices recentes em estudos etnobiológicos, representando ferramentas simples para avaliar a distribuição do conhecimento em um grupo humano. Apesar de a comunidade ter uma farmacopeia tradicional rica em plantas medicinais, o conhecimento não é distribuído uniformemente, uma vez que foi observado um baixo compartilhamento do. Não foram observadas relações es
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Biological and medical sciences
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Caatinga
Communities
Economic botany
Ethnobiology
Ethnobotany
Ethnopharmacology
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender roles
General pharmacology
Land use
Life Sciences
Medical sciences
Medicinal plants
Men
Pharmacognosy. Homeopathy. Health food
Pharmacology. Drug treatments
Plant Anatomy/Development
Plant Ecology
Plant Physiology
Plant Sciences
Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Rural areas
Traditional knowledge
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