Levantamento do uso de plantas medicinais e fitoterápicos no combate e prevenção da Covid-19 no município de Marabá-PA

Abstract

The first contamination by the SARS-COV-2 virus was recorded in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. According to the World Health Organization - WHO, on March 18, 2020, 214,000 people had already been infected worldwide. , according to Freitas, Napimoga and Donalisio (2020). At the height of the covid-19 pandemic, the world was looking for medication that minimized the effects of symptoms and made it possible for those affected to recover. to prevent and strengthen the body to fight infection and symptoms. Based on these desires, we seek as a general objective to carry out a survey of the main alternative methods used in order to prevent and treat the symptoms of COVID-19. To achieve this, a bibliographic survey was carried out corresponding to the theme and a field research that was structured from a questionnaire composed of open and closed questions aimed at people who have already been contaminated by the virus and who have proposed home treatments, people tested and untested, but who manifested the characteristic symptoms of the disease. And through the study we were able to conclude that the culture of self-medication is a recurrent practice among the target population of the research, which is independent of family income or level of education, based on predominant empirical traditional influences demonstrated by the interviewed population. We can conclude that the volunteer consumers of medicinal plants chose to use this resource because it is more accessible, and in most cases, the fastest alternative when they did not get adequate professional care.