Plantas medicinales del Distrito de Ocotlán, Oaxaca

Abstract

THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE DISTRICT OF OCOTLAN, A LOCALITY IN THE STATE OF OAXACA, MEXICO, WERE STUDIED. THE ZAPOTECA INDIANS REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF INHABITANTS IN THIS AREA. BECAUSE THE MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AS WELL AS URBAN CONDITIONS ARE DEFICIENT, THE STILL USE HEALING PLANTS IN TREATING A GREAT NUMBER OF ILLNESSES. THE STUDY REGISTERED 101 PLANTS OF WHICH 66 ARE WILD PLANTS AND 35 ARE CULTIVATED PLANTS. THE PREPARATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THEPLANTS ARE DESCRIBED, AS WELL AS THE PLANT PARTS THAT ARE UTILIZED, THE FORMS OF ADMINISTRATION, THE PLANT AND THE NUMBER OF PLANTS USED FOR A GIVEN DISEASE ARE ANLYZED. THE DOMINANT BOTANICAL FAMILIES ARE COMPOSITAE AND LEGUMONOSAE. THE MAJORITY OF THE REMEDIAL PLANTS ARE FOUND IN THE DISTURBED SITES WHICH SUGGEST A LONG HUMAN-MEDICAL PLANT INTERACTION.