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Pesquisa do estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG) / Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) / O uso de plantas para tratamento, cura e preven??o de doen?as, ? uma das mais antigas formas de pr?tica medicinal da humanidade. No Brasil a influ?ncia da cultura ind?gena, africana e europeia fundamentam a utiliza??o das plantas medicinais e outras pr?ticas de cura. Este saber tem sido marginalizado pela ci?ncia moderna apesar de ter sido fundamental para constitui??o da mesma. Cerca de 80% da popula??o mundial utiliza tratamentos tradicionais a base de plantas para suas necessidades de aten??o prim?ria de sa?de conforme estimativas da Organiza??o Mundial da Sa?de. As plantas de uso medicinal s?o cultivadas tanto em quintais rurais quanto urbanos. Nestes espa?os ao redor das casas, s?o cultivadas plantas para v?rios fins, s?o criados animais dom?sticos de pequeno porte e, tamb?m, acontecem atividades socioculturais e de lazer, o que faz dos quintais espa?os de conserva??o da biodiversidade e da sociodiversidade al?m de ser espa?o pedag?gico de reprodu??o do modo de vida do campo. Neste sentido, este trabalho tem o objetivo de demonstrar a l?gica cultural do uso de plantas medicinais e a valora??o de pr?ticas tradicionais do cuidar de agricultores familiares de tr?s munic?pios do Vale do Mucuri (Sudoeste do Brasil). Trata-se de uma pesquisa qualitativa onde foram feitas entrevistadas com agricultores que cultivam e utilizam plantas medicinais no cuidado da sa?de. As entrevistas foram analisadas atrav?s do m?todo de an?lise de discurso e foi poss?vel identificar a racionalidade do cultivo e do uso das plantas, cujo conhecimento vem sendo perpetuado principalmente de forma oral de gera??o em gera??o. Foram identificados pares de opostos complementares que organizam o mundo vivido das comunidades tradicionais, como: quente/fria, brava/mansa, alta/baixa. Tamb?m foi identificada rela??o da coleta das plantas com as fases da lua, com a cultura ind?gena local e com a f? cat?lica popular. Consideramos que o conhecimento a respeito do uso das plantas medicinais contribui com a autonomia das pessoas no cuidado com a sa?de, resiste e contribui com a constru??o do conhecimento dialogado com outros para a constru??o de uma sociedade mais saud?vel. Essa disserta??o de mestrado faz parte de um projeto mais amplo aprovado pela FAPEMIG no bi?nio 2015-2017 intitulado: ?O lugar e a vida: A organiza??o do trabalho e imagin?rio entre os agricultores familiares no Alto Vale Jequitinhonha (MG).? / Disserta??o (Mestrado Profissional) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Sa?de, Sociedade e Ambiente, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2015. / The use of plants for treatment, cure and prevention of diseases, is one of the oldest form of medical practice of mankind. In Brazil the influence of indigenous, African and European culture is warranting the use of medicinal plants and other healing practices. This knowledge has been marginalized by modern science even though it was fundamental for creation of it. About 80% of world population uses traditional herbal treatments for their primary health care needs according to estimates from the World Health Organization. The medicinal plants are grow in both rural and urban backyards. In these spaces around the houses, are cultivated plants for various purposes as the livestock of small domestic animals, also are held socio-cultural and leisure activities, which makes the backyards spaces of biodiversity conservation and social diversity as well as being educational space of reproduction of the rural way of life. Thus, this research aims to demonstrate the cultural logic of the use of medicinal plants and the valuation of traditional practices of caring from agricultural families in three municipalities of the Mucuri Valley (Brazil Southeast). It is a qualitative survey where respondents were from agricultural families who cultivate and use medicinal plants in the care of the health. The interviewed results analyzed by discurse analyses and were identified rationale of the cultivation and use of plants, that are mainly passed down orally from generation to generation. Complementary opposite pairs were identified to organize the life of traditional communities, like: hot/cold, angry/meek, tall/short. Also were identified the relationship of collect of plants with the phases of the moon, the relationship with the local indigenous culture and popular catholic faith. Considering that this knowledge contributes to people's autonomy in caring for the health, resist and contributione to building of knowledge in dialogue with others to the maintenance of a healthier society. This dissertation is part of a larger project approved by the FAPEMIG the biennium 2015-2017 entitled "The place and the life: The organization of work and imagination among family farmers in the Upper Jequitinhonha Valley (MG).