Práticas curativas do Povo Potiguara, PB: conhecimento e ciência através do poder das plantas

Abstract

In relation to the Potiguara People of Paraíba, of which I am a member of this ethnic group, I present here the healing practices of the body and soul developed by my people. These traditions are inherent to a people who fought courageously without departing from their traditional territories. As an indigenous people with a significant history in the conquest of Paraíba, our community deserves recognition as a protagonist on the national context,bridging scientific knowledge with traditional understandings of how to heal our people, but also healing nonindigenous individuals who seek our people for specific purposes. Our ethnic group possesses medicine, wisdom, philosophy, and other forms of knowledge that can engage in dialogue with the sciences, and this dissertation aims to facilitate such dialogues. The cultural practices experienced by the Potiguara must be examined through a scientific anthropological point of view since they are part of the daily life of the indigenous villages and exhibit rigorous evidence to treat illnesses that are not diagnosed by medical practitioners, for healing comes from indigenous sciences that are integral to our history.