The present study aims to describe traditional non timber forest products extraction technics
and the authors traditional learnings and practices about her people’s traditional medicine, the
Takaywrá Krahô tribe whose territory is sited in Lagoa da Confusão – Tocantins State. Are
shown results of the conscious bark extraction practice of three forest species and a palm
specie, used in the healing of body and soul female illnesses, in the preparation of natural
medicines, comprising the practices thought orally between generations. This way,
contributing to the comprehension of the responsible use knowledge of plant parts as
products. Traditional Medicine has been solving problems that the conventional medicine
treatments haven’t achieved to solve or even understand, bringing however, efficient and
natural solutions that consider the being as a whole and treat it’s wholeness. The importance
of the medicinal plants is not only related to its effects and healing power in body and
spiritual sicknesses, but also, make that the conscious extractions technics be thought and kept
as cultural heritage, preserving the environment and the interculturality.
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