O conhecimento popular das plantas medicinais como ferramenta para a educação ambiental na terceira idade

Abstract

The present work aims to make a rescue of the use of plants for medicinal purposes, by a group of seniors in the class II Special Student, Federal University of Santa Maria, proposing practical experience that endorse the appropriate use of these plants and awaken to continued use and perpetuation of knowledge of the elderly. We tried to collect a set of plant species for medicinal purposes, craft, food for the community have access to arrays of plants used in the study by treatment group. There was a note on dialects and behaviors of the elderly in relation to the environment of the Botanical Garden and the planting of seedlings, with the intention of rescuing the knowledge of these, increasing the feeling of belonging to the same. A questionnaire was applied to investigation of which plants were most used by the elderly, the way they prepare and what plants are on the list of plants given by the S.U.S. It was concluded that 90% of the subjects involved in the study using at least one of the plants listed in the listing of S.U.S. and 100% of them know the power medicinal plants.