The present work aims to research and show the importance of medicinal plants within the
Folha Grossa community in the city of Tocantinópolis, from the oldest to the youngest
inhabitants of the Povoado, observing the changes that have occurred to the use of natural
medications over the years. After starting from the social identity of the inhabitants with the
medicinal plants highlighting the importance that it has for the place, and for that it had as object
of study a detailed description on each plant and for what it serves and what benefits to the
people that uses each type of her, in the thick leaf settlement, also highlighting from its
emergence to the present day. The applied methodology was a bibliographical research based
on books on natural medicines, a unique Brazilian health system and also ethnographic research
carried out through interviews with residents of the Folha Grossa community who used and
used some for the health of themselves and some family member . In fact, the work even
highlights that the residents who always wore had their faith over them that could be cured if
they took it. The work was based on the contributions of some leading authors such as Maria
Christina de Mello and Anne Gély, Júnior Cirino Corrêa and Marianne Christina Scheffer, E.
Fajardo. In order to bring this contribution of how the changes and culture of a certain place
changes with the passage of time, but one thing that does not stop is these sources of
contribution that in the case of medicinal plants will always be alive in the lives of many
residents of the Folha Grossa Village.
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