Mi SciELO
Servicios Personalizados
Articulo
Indicadores
Citado por SciELO
Links relacionados
Similares en SciELO
Compartir
Revista CENIC Ciencias Biológicas
versión On-line ISSN 2221-2450
Resumen
AGUAIZA QUIZHPILEMA, Jacinto y SIMBAINA SOLANO, Juan Carlos. Use of medicinal plants and ancestral knowledge in rural communities of the province of Cañar, Ecuador. Rev. CENIC Cienc. Biol [online]. 2021, vol.52, n.3, pp. 223-236. Epub 01-Dic-2021. ISSN 2221-2450.
In rural areas of the Cañar province, there are numerous native and introduced plants for therapeutic use, which have been little known and little accessible in the population. The native inhabitants have been using these since ancient times, benefiting from the curative properties for the prevention and treatment of multiple diseases and energy healing. In this study, the objective was to locate and map plants of therapeutic use of great importance in public health. For the same, GPS and Mobile Topographer were used for the annotation of the approximate location. With the data, georeferencing was performed using the ArcGis 10.5 software. Additionally, the R software was used for the correlation between altitude and location of the plants. Likewise, the coordinates and landast 8 images were used for soil and vegetation analysis in the study area using ArcGis 10.5. Therefore, 87 plants with compromising therapeutic potentials, useful in traditional medicine of Cañar, have been located and described, and it is suggested to conserve, preserve, propagate, and investigate prophylactic doses.
Palabras clave : Traditional medicine; Medicinal plants; Location; Georeferencing.