the paper plantas medicinais utilizadas na comunidade caiçara da praia do sono, paraty, rio de janeiro, brasil (medicinal plants used by the caiçara community of praia do sono, paraty, rio de janeiro, brazil) by mariana reis de brito and luci de senna-valle explores how some habits and traditions from ancient generations have survived in this region, also due to the difficult access.

the paper investigates the knowledge about the medicinal plants in the community - eighty-nine species were cited, belonging to 43 botanical families, with lamiaceae and asteraceae being the most representative ones.  praia do sono (beach of the sleep) is located inside the reserva ecológica da juatinga - rej, part of the área de preservação ambiental do cairuçu, in paraty.