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QUINTANA ARIAS, Ronald Fernando. Traditional medicine in the community of San Basilio de Palenque. Nova [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.25, pp.67-93. ISSN 1794-2470.

Objective. Identify plants with value ofmedicinal use in the community ofSan Basilio de Palenque between 2009 and 2014. Methods. It was used the informants consensus methodological approach. Results. It was registered 135 medicinal plants, of which 57 species and 124 genera belonging to 58 botanical families were identified. This allowed to establish the relationship between social history of medicinal uses linking Africa and America, as well as a classification temperature (cold-hot) that directly link the life cycle of the plant, the territory and the human body. The results indicate a relationship between human being-territory-medicinal use, which determines the dosage of the treatment and the life cycle of the plant.

Palavras-chave : Afro-Colombian; thermal categories; ethnobotany; human being; territory; medicinal use.

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