Biodiversity International Journal Research Article Open Access Ethnobotany of medicinal plants used to treat malaria by traditional healers from ten indigenous Colombian communities located in Waupes Medio Abstract Volume 1 Issue 4 - 2017 The indigenous communities from Vaupes Medio possess knowledge in the use Ramírez O,1 Blair S,1 Vaupés Medio TV,2 of plants to treat their illnesses. This knowledge has been transmitted orally from 3 1 generation to generation. The present article aimed to carry out investigates the Cardona F, Pabón A 1Malaria Group, Faculty of Medicine, University of Antioquia, ethnobotany of medicinal plants used to cure malaria by 10 knowledgeable indigenous Colombia communities from Vaupes Medio, Colombia. Open and semi-structured interviews 2Knowledgeable group of traditional healers, Vaupés Medio, were conducted with 33 traditional healers representing 10 indigenous communities Colombia located in the Colombian southeast. Concurrently, field trips were conducted to 3Group of Botanical Studies, University of Antioquia, Colombia identify and collect the reported species. Together with the aid of a bibliography, the identification and gathering of information for each species was performed in the Correspondence: Adriana Pabón, Grupo Malaria, Facultad Colombian Amazonian Herbarium - COAH - Sinchi Institute, Colombian National de Medicina, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, Tel Herbarium (COL) and University of Antioquia Herbarium (HUA) herbariums. To (574)2196490, Email
[email protected] find the relative importance of each plant species used to treat malaria, the degree of consensus among the survey respondents was determined using the Friedman’s index. Received: August 08, 2017 | Published: November 28, 2017 The traditional healers reported 41 morphospecies, among them 35 were identified down to the species, 5 to the genus, and 1 to the family.