This work is a contribution to the documentation and recording of knowledge and traditional health practices of the Mebêngôkre-Kayapó people, mainly on the use of medicinal plants and the basic understanding of their traditional health system, Mebêngôkre Djukanê. It is aimed especially at the Mebêngôkre-Kayapó people, but also at non-indigenous agents linked to the National Indigenous Health Subsystem, in particular the Kayapó DSEI. The content is divided into two parts, the first reporting the participatory research activities developed jointly with the indigenous people; the second part presents a catalog bringing together 64 medicinal plants known and used by traditional specialists, with their respective indigenous names and associated information, such as the parts used of the plants, the indicated treatments and the procedures, with bilingual description in Mebêngôkre-Kayapó and Portuguese . One of the main purposes of the publication is to encourage the new Mebêngôkre generations to maintain interest in these essential knowledge and practices in the preservation of indigenous health and to promote relationships of understanding and joint actions between the traditional indigenous health care system and the National Health Subsystem. Indigenous, through intercultural knowledge and practices.
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