Principios de la cosmovisión andina relacionados con el uso de plantas medicinales en la parroquia de Sayausí, cantón Cuenca

Abstract

Background: Sayausí, despite its development in the last 20 years Andean ancestral customs still remain, such as the use of medicinal plants: preventive and therapeutic resources in health. Objetive: To know the handling of medicinal plants in the town of Sayausí according to the principles of the Andean world. Materials and Methods: A qualitative and intercultural approach. Studies the use of medicinal plants under the principles of the Andean world, with the sages of the community. Theoretical basis for data analysis: the narrative design, creating concepts and interpretations from the information obtained from the wise. Techniques used: interviews. Instruments: forms with open questions, recordings and photographs. The interviews were drafted using quotations, codes and memos, you processed with the Atlas program; the main categories grouped according taxonomies; supplemented with information tables and figures. Results: Yachak explained in their own words and experiences the five principles: relationality, reciprocity, correspondence, complementarity and parity. In its rationality everything works as a holistic process, involving all the components of the universe. The heal mountains is a real ritual includes principles, plants, body and spirit. In the educational process involved the wise: learning, Don and need. Plants have three main functions: healing, feeding and sacred element. Ways to classify plants were gender, shape, color, and thermal state. Mount collection, preparation and administration are the three stages of the healing process.