The use of medicinal plants in the Afro-Yapatera community of Piura: ancestral knowledge and biocultural heritage

Abstract

Within the framework of the XIII Latin American Congress of Medicinal Plants (COLAPLAMED) recently held in the city of Chulucanas, province of Morropón, department of Piura, northern Peru, the Chilean delegation represented by professors and students from the Diego Portales University, University of Chile, Metropolitan Technological University and the Institute of Public Health (ISP), was invited by the president of the Yapatera Cultural House Association, Abelardo Alzamora Arévalo, to visit the medicinal garden and typical museum in the Yapatera community near the city of Chulucanas. The purpose of the visit was to share experiences regarding the recognition of the cultural legacy that is traditional medicine, the use of medicinal plants in the area and especially in the community's medicinal garden.