https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0252-6079
Master's student in Biosciences and graduate (degree and bachelor's degree) in Biological Sciences from Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, faculty of science and letters of Assis. Active in the areas of botany and public health, with an emphasis on medicinal plants and member of the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Technology in Phytoproducts (FITOTEC) and the Laboratory of Plant Systematics (Sisveg).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9142-0371
He has a degree in Biochemical Pharmacy from the State University of Londrina. Master's and PhD in Sciences (Psychobiology) from the University of São Paulo - USP, Ribeirão Preto. She works as an Assistant Professor in the Biotechnological Engineering course at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho. She has experience in the area of Pharmacology, with an emphasis on Neuropsychopharmacology. From the development of her post-doctorate, she also carries out research in the area of Industrial Biotechnology and Ethnopharmacology aiming at a broader evaluation of the pharmacological and toxicological activities of plants and the development of new pharmaceutical products.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0594-8418
He has a degree in Biological Sciences from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2001), a master's degree in Applied Ecology from the University of São Paulo (2004), a doctorate in Biological Sciences (Plant Biology) from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2008), Post-Doctorate through the National Post-Doctoral Program (PNPD/CAPES, 2008-2009) and participated in the DCR program at the Federal University of Western Pará (2010-2011). She is currently an Associate Professor at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho and is Director of the Faculty of Sciences and Letters, Campus de Assis. She has experience in the area of Botany, with an emphasis on Taxonomy of Phanerogamas, working mainly on the following topics: taxonomy of Bignoniaceae, taxonomy of lianas and floristics.
The use of medicinal plants in a therapeutic way is a practice that is of great importance in the care of women's health and often represents the only treatment option for women who use the Unified Health System (SUS) for the promotion and recovery of their health. In this direction, an ethnobotanical survey was conducted in the Caiçara Traditional Community of Sertão do Ubatumirim, Ubatuba, São Paulo, seeking to identify plant species used by the community in the treatment of women's health. After field collection, a documental analysis was carried out in order to observe those promising species in the development of phytotherapics to be made available in primary care. Of the 16 species identified, seven were included in at least one of the government documents analyzed, but none of the species had the indications for use described by the interviewees for women's health. In this way, it is necessary to develop new ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological research that value Brazilian biodiversity and traditional knowledge, and allow medicinal plants used by communities to be studied, have proven efficacy and safety, and be converted into herbal medicines made available by the SUS to guarantee and promote women's health in Brazil.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0252-6079
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9142-0371
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0594-8418
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