Plantas medicinales en las plazas de mercado de Bogotá comercializadas para el tratamiento de cáncer un contraste entre conocimiento popular y conocimiento científico
Human beings have always resorted to plants to heal their ailments; However, this knowledge collected through the history of medicinal plants is being lost, a situation that leads to diminishing the need to use them. With this research, we seek, in some way, to recover some of that popular knowledge...
- Autores:
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Langeslag D'Hont, Nadine
- Tipo de recurso:
- Trabajo de grado de pregrado
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2018
- Institución:
- Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.A
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio Institucional UDCA
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repository.udca.edu.co:11158/872
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repository.udca.edu.co/handle/11158/872
- Palabra clave:
- Conocimiento popular
Conocimiento científico
Diálogo de saberes
Interdisciplina
Cáncer
Plantas medicinales
Ciencias Ambientales
- Rights
- closedAccess
- License
- Derechos Reservados - Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales
| Summary: | Human beings have always resorted to plants to heal their ailments; However, this knowledge collected through the history of medicinal plants is being lost, a situation that leads to diminishing the need to use them. With this research, we seek, in some way, to recover some of that popular knowledge and contrasting it with the knowledge generated from scientific research and reported in specialized publications. A sampling was carried out in 10 market places in different localities of the city of Bogotá (Colombia). People who commercialize medicinal plants were interviewed, inquiring which are related to cancer treatment. 39 species of medicinal plants were recorded, of which different parts are used and through different preparations for cancer remedies. From the literature review in specialized journals it was found that the number of articles found varies from species to species and that, for some, there are no reports of articles. In the specific case of the Colombian Vademecum of Medicinal Plants registers of only 3 species were found for the treatment of cancer and, less than 50% of the species found on the market places, were in the lists of plants accepted for therapeutic purposes. The conclution is that the dialogue of knowledge with the people who commercialize the medicinal plants is a very important source of information that can be the base for investigations to create more knowledge about the medicinal plants and how to best use them. |
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