Uso de plantas medicinales según la cosmovisión en andina,por parte de los hombre y mujeres de sabiduría, en la parroquia El Valle, Cuenca, 2015

Abstract

Background: the Andean medicine applies for many centuries in our territory, it has been inherited from generation to generation in indigenous communities; this ancient knowledge is despised either due to ignorance or lack of interest; and it is not sufficiently studied in the system of Western medicine. Objective: to know the use of medicinal plants in the community of the Valley by men and women of ancient wisdom, according to the Andean worldview. Materials and methods: this is a qualitative study of narrative order, to determine the use of the medicinal plants applied in the parish of El Valle, in Cuenca city through the analysis of interviews with men and women of wisdom, with previously structured questionnaires; then were processed and analyzed in the software for qualitative data Atlas ti, and finally builds a memory in tales and diagrams. Results: the most commonly used medicinal plants are the altamiso, rue, water elder, sarsaparilla, eucalyptus among others; they are used as an infusion, maceration and bathrooms. Diseases that deal are Western and traditional, within the first are stress, diarrhea and respiratory apparatus diseases, traditional pathologies are inside, the evil eye, bad air and the horror