出版社：Grupo de Pesquisa Metodologias em Ensino e Aprendizagem em Ciências
摘要：Medicinal plants present themselves as an important investigative locus. With this in mind, this article sought to map and analyze theses and dissertations present in the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD), from 2015 to 2020 that include trends, practices and activities aimed at medicinal plants, as well as their relevance to the environment socio-educational. Through a bibliographical survey, a total of 151 researches were found, being 112 dissertations and 39 theses. The form of selection of these works was through the term “medicinal plants” present in the titles of the mapped works. As adopted methodology, a bibliographic analysis was used, with the creation of the following descriptors: year of publication, institutions and Brazilian regions, as well as the creation of three a priori categories: Category I: Trends in the use of medicinal plants; Category II: Contributions in the use of medicinal plants and Category III: Practices in the use of medicinal plants. For data analysis, Discursive Textual Analysis was used. Through this survey, it could be seen that the Brazilian northeast region is the one that develops the most research in the area of medicinal plants, contributing to the scientific dissemination of this theme.
