In Brazil, with a large number of tropical species, evidenciate the knowledge and use of the medicine vegetation by the "quilombolas", riverine, rurally, traditional and indigenous communities are used nowadays. The Mato Grosso state by their localization in the Central Brazilian Plateau posses a variety of community, which use those medicinal plants, carrying in consideration the popular knowledge passed though generation to generation. This research had as purpose to identificate the use of this vegetable group the collect ways related by the users and collectors. The study was realized into 15 traditional communities (not indigenous) in the Alto Paraguay Bay and 2 (two) in the Guaporé Valley. The data collect were made with the community leaders, women healers, midwife and users, it was used the qualitative method, with qualitative boarding, with aim of structured qualitative interview, semistructured and opened. Between the identified 17 destacated to the treatment of diabetes, between them it was cited Anacadium humile; Bauhinia glabra; Cecropia pachystachya; Hancornia speciosa; Heteropteris aphrodisiaca; Leonotis nepetifolia; Momordica charantia; Solanum lycocarpum. It was registered still, that the more used parts of this vegetable are: leaves, burke, root, all plant, shoot, fruit oil and fruits flour. In according to users the biggest part of the plants can't be collected after the sun rinsing and the prepare must be done with dry leaves or that had been submitted to the process of drying on the oven or in a muffled place.
Hypoglicemiants plants; Traditional communities; Pantanal; Savanna