Papel das plantas medicinais na questão de gênero dentre as mulheres pescadoras-erveiras do espaço Erva Vida Sossego/Marudá/Marapanim

Abstract

Work from the perspective of the deployment option of herbal therapy in the Health System in the village of Marudá, Marapanim municipality on the northeast coast of Pará, from experience in ethnopharmacy and ethnomedicine of women's group Herb Life, formed by women that before working with phytotherapeutic products were artisanal fishers, discerned a universe that pervades through the constraints imposed by the gender issue, by persistence, despite the limitations, of if remaining united until achieve autonomy, that whether configured in the production and marketing of medicines produced with medicinal plants, based on popular knowledge ancestrally transmitted by oral tradition and was revitalized by these women. With the endorsement, enthusiasm and cooperation of the herbalists-fishers, the experience of group Herb Life was worked as a case study, using qualitative survey techniques such as participant observation and chatting groups during the field research that lasted for 15 months. It was Traced a bias, that converses with the situation of fisherwoman (artisanal fishing) and the popular knowledge about use medicinal plants as medicine. Theoretical reference sought to pay tribute to the good bibliography the authors of de Amazon on the thematic protagonists, that it was possible observed that gender issue in artisanal fisheries bothers and has being studied by the Academy, therefore, as is clear in reading the work done in the Amazon that the use of medicinal plants is a learning alive and linked to riverside or coastal communities Amazonian. Conclusion of the dissertation went to meet the proposed goal know the experience of herbalists-fishers of the group herb life with medicinal plants by generating sufficient information to compose a phytotherapic mementum, necessary for the inclusion of the medicinal plants as therapy option in the SUS of Marudá and understand the process of emancipation of women herbalists-fishers, coming from the knowledge appropriate about the handling and use of medicinal plants.