Traditional knowledge and women’s postpartum care: the use of medicinal plants by women in the South-Central and Campos Gerais region, PR, Brazil

This study aims to understand the use and material symbolic appropriation of medicinal plants by women in South-Central region Paraná Campos Gerais for postpartum care. To this end, 213 mothers who gave birth from 2006 2021 revealed that most them experienced specific care provided a relative, regardless education, correlated certain herbs recipes regional biocultural heritage. The knowledge about remains active, territorialized mind body as social strategy resistance domination expertise. historical geographical approach cultural practice highlights phenomenon re-signification traditional life contexts multiple modernities.