Tratamiento de la Leishmaniasis cutánea con plantas medicinales en Trujillo, Venezuela.

Abstract

The located cotaneous leishmaniosos is a clinical entity of a protozoosis caused by the of a flebotomine female insect, previously infected by a parasite of the leishamnia genre. In Trujillo, Venezuela, this illness has a high epidemic risk for its urban and rural presence, presenting a monthly variation average of 143 cases, calculated in the base of voluntary attendance to a medical clinic for the investigation and diagnostic of metaxenic illnesses at the Research Center “Jose Witremundo Torrealba”. The present work presents the result of a descriptive retrospective study carried out in a sample of 1600 interviews with parient and a door survey in rural towns of this state, with the objective of determining the use and type of homemade treatments that can interfere with the chemo therapy, as well as to verifying the clinical cure with these treatments and to determine the casual agent of the lesion by means of inmunologics (IDR), serologics (ELISA) and moleculars techniques (PCR) and parasitic cure’s possibility. We find twenty-six plants with an importance bigger than 50% of use, in 360 detected; the plants were grouped according to the Rabeteau’s system, in four groups of medicinal plants. It is pointed out their common name and the way of use of each one of them. We confirm the clinical cure by these treatments and to Leishmania (v) braziliensis as casual agent of the current lesion, finding a 32% of parasitic cure and 2% of reactive on skin. We conclude that it becomes necessary a study experimentally designed with the plants that are mostly used the communities