HISTORICAL RESCUE OF A RURAL STUDIES GROUP OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

health education

Abstract

This paper describes the historical rescue of a study group of medicinal plants in the rural hinterland of the city of Pelotas, Brazil, Espinheira Santa Group, through qualitative methods and exploratory, with the use of narrative. The need for this study emerged from the discussions guided by the discipline of Health and Environment, part of the Nurse Masters Degree curriculum at the Federal University of Pelotas, in partnership with Embrapa Temperate Climate through the project "Bioactive Human Useful Plants by basic ecological familiar farmers in the south of RS ". Realized the need for a rescue of the historical reality experienced by understanding how a potential space for environmental education local/regional of fostering knowledge and practices of ecological and environmental preservation. Above all, it was considered the group as a socially constructed space for the perpetuation of knowledge about medicinal plants, health and organization of space. As this paper highlights the historic rescue group from the perspective of a former member, it is pertinent to the continuation of this study where one learns searching.