Plant species to control diabetes used in counties in the extreme upper Basin Platinum, Alto Pantanal Portion, Mato Grosso, Brazil

Diabetes is a disease which progresses within and between age groups. Today the local people use medicinal plants as an alternative to health care. Define plants to every illness, as well as diabetes. This work shows plants used for diabetes at the upper end of the Platina Basin (P), near the southern part of the Amazon Basin (A). The study, part of Project PLAMED, included 14 municipalities of Alto Pantanal Basin Platinum (P), Mato Grosso, Brazil. In the north of P has a range of transition basins (PA = T) and going over has been the beginning of the Amazon Basin (A). Data were collected by interview in 2005, with informants recognized competence in the subject and indicated by the local community. In two counties there was no appointment of species to treat diabetes. In others (12), were given 1 – 4 esp/mun. totaling 35 indications showed 18 species used in P for diabetes: “Abacaxi”(Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.), “Calunga”(Simaba ferruginea A. St.-Hil), “Caferana”(Vernonia polyanthes Less), “Cipó da Amazônia”(Banisteriopsis caapi (Spruce) Morton), “Carambola”(Averrhoa carambola L.), “Douradinha”(Palicourea xanthophylla M. Arg,) “Insulina”(Cissus verticillata (L.) Nicholson & C.E. Jarvis), “Quebra-pedra”(Phyllanthus niruri L.), “Sai-de-mim”(?), “Tiririca”(Cyperus rotundus L.), “Caju-do-campo”(Anacardium humile A. St.-Hil), “Cebola-roxa”(Allium cepa L.), “Pedra ume-ca-á”(Myrcia sphaerocarpa DC.), “Açoita-cavalo”(Luehea divaricata Mart. et. Zucc); G2) 3 common between P and A: “Urucum”[Bixa orellana L.], “Pata-de-vaca”[Bauhinia sp], “Jucá”[Caesalpinia ferrea Mart.; G3) one kind was triple-joint (P, AP, A): “Carqueja”[Baccharis sp]. The most frequently mentioned were “Pata-de-vaca” (6/12) and “Carqueja” (7/12), and the others had one appointment each. The target plants are concentrated in two species and disperse in the others. Among the 18 species, the “Cebola” has more and "Douradinha" "has less research related to diabetes, which were available online at abr2013