Abstract

Introduction: Nursing as a science feels the need to know the origin, context and action of medicinal plants in order to contribute to the assistance being a field of interrelationships between active subjects.

Objective: To describe the nursing actions from the knowledge of ethnobotany in medicinal species.

Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional study in the Ramosloma community of the Salasaca parish of the Tungurahua province in the central Andes of Ecuador in the period August-March 2019. The universe consisted of 183 inhabitants over 18 years of age, residents of the community of Ramosloma and the intentional sample of 163 of them that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The variables studied were: age, sex, way of obtaining knowledge, number of known species, nursing activities.

Results: 65.03% of the sample belonged to the female sex and 12.26% knew more than 9 medicinal plants. 96.94% of the nursing actions carried out were in the age group of 78 years and over. 59.56% acquired knowledge about medicinal plants in a traditional way, p < 0.001 when nursing actions were correlated with empirical and medical knowledge.

Conclusion: Nursing actions linked to the education of people about the correct use of medicinal plants, is of paramount importance for the adequate response to phytotherapy and its use is vital due to its easy acquisition, low economic cost and few adverse reactions.

Keywords: Ethnobotany; Species; Nursing

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