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Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)

BACKGROUND: Ethnobotanical research has demonstrated that several wild food plants (WFP) are used for medicinal purposes. Therefore, in addition to constituting an important source of nutrients, WFP can be used to help treat and avoid health problems. This study sought to characterize the traditiona...

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Autores principales: de Medeiros, Patrícia Muniz, Figueiredo, Karina Ferreira, Gonçalves, Paulo Henrique Santos, Caetano, Roberta de Almeida, Santos, Élida Monique da Costa, dos Santos, Gabriela Maria Cota, Barbosa, Déborah Monteiro, de Paula, Marcelo, Mapeli, Ana Maria
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039374
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00463-y
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author de Medeiros, Patrícia Muniz
Figueiredo, Karina Ferreira
Gonçalves, Paulo Henrique Santos
Caetano, Roberta de Almeida
Santos, Élida Monique da Costa
dos Santos, Gabriela Maria Cota
Barbosa, Déborah Monteiro
de Paula, Marcelo
Mapeli, Ana Maria
author_facet de Medeiros, Patrícia Muniz
Figueiredo, Karina Ferreira
Gonçalves, Paulo Henrique Santos
Caetano, Roberta de Almeida
Santos, Élida Monique da Costa
dos Santos, Gabriela Maria Cota
Barbosa, Déborah Monteiro
de Paula, Marcelo
Mapeli, Ana Maria
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description BACKGROUND: Ethnobotanical research has demonstrated that several wild food plants (WFP) are used for medicinal purposes. Therefore, in addition to constituting an important source of nutrients, WFP can be used to help treat and avoid health problems. This study sought to characterize the traditional use of plants considered simultaneously as food and medicine by local specialists in the community of Caeté-Açu, which borders Chapada Diamantina National Park (NE Brazil). We also sought to identify the variables that influence the species’ cultural importance. METHODS: We selected local specialists based on a snowball sample and used a free-listing technique to register the wild plants they knew that are both edible and medicinal. Then, we asked the specialists to rank each plant component cited according to the following attributes: (1) ease of acquisition, (2) taste, (3) smell, (4) nutritional value, and (5) medicinal value. We used multiple regression to determine the variables that influence the cultural salience. RESULTS: The most culturally salient species was Anredera cordifolia (Ten.) Steenis. The main medicinal effects associated with this species were related to body strengthening, intestinal regulation, and stomach issues. The most salient used species were those that were easiest to acquire and had the highest perceived nutritional values. CONCLUSION: It is likely that the sociocultural backgrounds of the respondents (elders, former miners, or descendants of miners) and the historical importance of wild food plants to local diets increased the predictive power of the perceived nutritional importance and ease of acquisition of these plants. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13002-021-00463-y.
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spelling pubmed-81574132021-05-28 Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil) de Medeiros, Patrícia Muniz Figueiredo, Karina Ferreira Gonçalves, Paulo Henrique Santos Caetano, Roberta de Almeida Santos, Élida Monique da Costa dos Santos, Gabriela Maria Cota Barbosa, Déborah Monteiro de Paula, Marcelo Mapeli, Ana Maria J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Research BACKGROUND: Ethnobotanical research has demonstrated that several wild food plants (WFP) are used for medicinal purposes. Therefore, in addition to constituting an important source of nutrients, WFP can be used to help treat and avoid health problems. This study sought to characterize the traditional use of plants considered simultaneously as food and medicine by local specialists in the community of Caeté-Açu, which borders Chapada Diamantina National Park (NE Brazil). We also sought to identify the variables that influence the species’ cultural importance. METHODS: We selected local specialists based on a snowball sample and used a free-listing technique to register the wild plants they knew that are both edible and medicinal. Then, we asked the specialists to rank each plant component cited according to the following attributes: (1) ease of acquisition, (2) taste, (3) smell, (4) nutritional value, and (5) medicinal value. We used multiple regression to determine the variables that influence the cultural salience. RESULTS: The most culturally salient species was Anredera cordifolia (Ten.) Steenis. The main medicinal effects associated with this species were related to body strengthening, intestinal regulation, and stomach issues. The most salient used species were those that were easiest to acquire and had the highest perceived nutritional values. CONCLUSION: It is likely that the sociocultural backgrounds of the respondents (elders, former miners, or descendants of miners) and the historical importance of wild food plants to local diets increased the predictive power of the perceived nutritional importance and ease of acquisition of these plants. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13002-021-00463-y. BioMed Central 2021-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8157413/ /pubmed/34039374 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00463-y Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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de Medeiros, Patrícia Muniz
Figueiredo, Karina Ferreira
Gonçalves, Paulo Henrique Santos
Caetano, Roberta de Almeida
Santos, Élida Monique da Costa
dos Santos, Gabriela Maria Cota
Barbosa, Déborah Monteiro
de Paula, Marcelo
Mapeli, Ana Maria
Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)
title Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)
title_full Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)
title_fullStr Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)
title_full_unstemmed Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)
title_short Wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in Chapada Diamantina (Northeastern Brazil)
title_sort wild plants and the food-medicine continuum—an ethnobotanical survey in chapada diamantina (northeastern brazil)
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039374
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13002-021-00463-y
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