Análisis cuantitativo del conocimiento tradicional sobre plantas utilizadas para el tratamiento de enfermedades antitumorales y antiinflamatorias en la parroquia de San José de Minas, de la provincia de Pichincha del Cantón Quito

Abstract

This paper presents the results on medicinal plants used for the treatment of antitumor and anti - inflammatory diseases by Ecuadorian population living in San José de Minas; the study was done to evaluate its cultural importance. Ethnomedicinal data were obtained through structured interviews with 150 randomly selected informants. The cultural importance was evaluated by the index of cultural importance (CI), informants consensus factor (FIC), fidelity level (FL) and analysis of variance with the characteristics of the informants and number of species. There were 60 species corresponding to 29 families. The most diverse families were Asteraceae, (9 species), Lamiaceae (8 species) and Apiaceae (4 species). Mainly introduced and cultivated species, mostly herbs (40 species) are used. Leaves and branches are usually used. There is a high degree of consensus among the informants of the parish of San José de Minas regarding the use of the species for 76.5% of recorded uses (Fic ≥ 0.8 to 1.0). High values are high for the inflammations and diseases of the digestive system, tegumentary, genitourinary, nervous, detox, tumors and cancer