Análisis cuantitativo del conocimiento tradicional sobre plantas utilizadas para el tratamiento de enfermedades antitumorales y antiinflamatorias en la parroquia La Victoria de Imbana, provincia de Zamora Chinchipe

Abstract

This work allowed describe and quantitatively evaluate the use of medicinal plants for the treatment of inflammatory diseases antitumor and parish Imbana Victoria province of Zamora Chinchipe. cultural importance for species, uses and sociocultural characteristics of the informants was evaluated. The information was obtained by applying semi-structured 191 people over 18 in the towns of Los guabos, La Libertad, La Union, El Warm, crystal, Bella Maria and Tambo Blanco interviews. common names, uses, parts used and ways of preparing each species were recorded, with the tea, the method most commonly used by the inhabitants. As for the floristic diversity, 99 species of medicinal plants from 53 families were recorded. Families with more species were Asteraceae (12 species), Lamiaceae (6 species) and Amaranthaceae and Solanaceae (5 species) each. Statistical analysis by ANOVA allowed to know that there is no significant relationship between the number of plants used and the characteristics of the informants