Estudio etnobotánico y etnoveterinario de plantas medicinales en el municipio Uaco Cungo, Angola

The present work was carried out in the Municipality of Waco-Cungo, Province of Cuanza Sul, from November 2018 to January 2020 to identify the medicinal plants used to treat animal diseases. 112 people (106 men and 6 women) were interviewed, of which 69% used medicinal plants to treat animal diseases. There were 56 plants belonging to the botanical families Fabaceae (7,14%), Solanaceae (5,36%), Zingiberaceae, Apocynaceae and Caesalpiniaceae, with 3,57%, respectively, another 20 botanical families each with only 1,79%, and the medicinal plants that they were not the botanical families the one that belong, they represented 39,29%. Indices such as the use value, fidelity level and relative frequency of citation of medicinal plants were calculated. The most commonly used medicinal plants were leaves (42,71%) and roots (27,12%). The highest percentage of citations were aqueous extract (30,53%), maceration (23,42%), powder (19,21%) and decoction (15,53%). The amounts more used were of ½ L (21,02%), 1 L (21,02%), handful (18,32) and tablespoon (15,92%), and the route of administration most cited was oral (62,07%) followed by topical (37,93%). The most frequent diseases or symptoms were those of the digestive system (36,07%), followed by diseases and lesions of the skin (31,56%) and diseases or symptoms of the respiratory system (23,36%).