Uso de plantas medicinales como tratamiento de soporte para los problemas respiratorios en adultos mayores. Tarqui - 2019

Abstract

BACKGROUND. - The use of medicinal plants allows us to understand, respect the identity and incorporate millenary health knowledge and practices to health care and disease recovery, aimed at rescuing the value of nature as a provider of natural resources, of medicinal plants that help individual and social well-being; used as ancestral or supportive alternative treatments, they act jointly with the providers of Western health services in a clear dialogue of knowledge recognized in the current health model.

OBJECTIVE. - Identify the use of medicinal plants as a support treatment for respiratory problems in older adults. Tarqui 2019

METHODS AND MATERIALS. - The research was quantitative, the type of cross-sectional descriptive study, the finite universe made up of 60 older adults, the quantitative techniques used were the semi-structured interview prepared by the authors, a pilot test and form validation was performed. In the information processing the SPS 22 version, Excel, Word programs were used; In the analysis, descriptive statistics were applied with frequencies, percentages and corresponding ethical procedures.

RESULTS.- The results obtained allowed the validation of ancestral knowledge about medicinal plants as a supportive treatment for respiratory diseases; It was also a base study for the approach of strategies for the dialogue of knowledge between ancestral and Western medicine to improve the quality of life and recover cultural identity.

CONCLUSIONS.- 56% of older adults are between 65 years + - 70 years, 6.7% between 75 and 81 years of which 95% use medicinal plants as a supportive treatment in combination.

Western nature observing a rescue of wisdom with ancestral medicine by health borrowers promoting the use of eucalyptus, ginger, linden, as expectorants and soothing cough.