AS PLANTAS MEDICINAIS NO TRATAMENTO DE FERIDAS: UMA REVISÃO BIBLIOGRÁFICA DO PONTO DE VISTA DA ENFERMAGEM
Abstract
Plants have both medicinal and nutritional uses, that is, they are of great value in possible therapeutic discoveries, as these are part of the history of human development. Nursing, as the profession that performs wound care, needs to understand how such care is performed popularly. Thus, the objective of this literature review is to conduct a survey of scientific articles that prove the effectiveness of using medicinal plants in the treatment of wounds. Based on the 27 articles studied, medicinal plants become alternatives of great relevance to the wound healing process, which begin to be part of Brazilian health care, considering that their use is validated by studies that affirm their healing potential and the role the nurse as an incentive, not only to care, but also enabling contact with cultures and empirical knowledge in search of integrative care.
Keywords: Ethnobotany. Phytotherapy. Lesion. Medicinal plants.
