Plantas medicinales empleadas en el núcleo familiar para tratar enfermedades relacionadas al covid-19, estudio del cantón Latacunga

Abstract

Abstract: The present work deals with the study of medicinal plant species used to treat the Covid-2019 pandemic, where the effectiveness of medicinal plants used to fight the aforementioned disease is evaluated, semi-structured interviewswere carried out with 383 informants, where the Friedman index (FL), the informant consensus factor (FIC) the level of significant use (UST) and analysis of variance (ANOVA), 63 species corresponding to 34 families were recorded, where the 03 species withthe highest number total citations are: Zingiber officinale Roscoe (219 citations, 12.76%) followed by Eucalyptus globulus Labill (194, 11.31%), Citrus × lemon (L.) Osbeck (187, 10.90%), the informants from the canton Latacunga approve the use of several species of medicinal plants to treat Covid-2019 disease, so there is a high value of the informant consensus factor (FIC) ranging from (0.93 to 0.96) for the categories: Indi abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, signs and findings, not classified elsewhere, respiratory system pathologies and musculoskeletal and connective tissue pathologies.