Traditional use of medicinal plants in pregnant women and puerperal women of the native communities Loja-Ecuador

Abstract

In order to identify and specify the medicinal plants most used by pregnant women and in their different stages of the puerperium; and to characterize the forms of use of medicinal plants in the gestation period and, in the puerperium of the native communities of the zone 7-Loja-Ecuador; a qualitative and quantitative, descriptive study will be carried out. It will work together with the positions of the Ministry of Public Health in each community, prior to this the project will be socialized, to obtain pertinent information and learn about the different medicinal plants used, as well as at what stage of pregnancy and the puerperium they are most used. It will be allowed to define the differences and similarities of their uses in the first level and in this way to be able to suggest if they are effective for the solution of health problems in the study group, the ancestral therapeutic uses of the different species of the ecosystem will be established. zone, to recover the ancestral culture in the management of medicinal plants in the intervention locations. And the optimal forms of preparation and use will be established to apply them correctly and thus take advantage of the properties of each of the parts of medicinal plants.