Panorama da utilização de plantas medicinais na saúde pública brasileira

Abstract

The SUS - National Health System, the public health system in Brazil, does not have a pharmaceutical assistance policy able to meet the needs of the poor in obtaining essential drugs. Currently the decentralization of government, municipalities obtained greater autonomy in their efforts to implement health care programs. The approach of the scientific means to learn popular, with the inclusion of medicinal plants, herbal medicine and other complementary health practices in the public health system provide benefits. These aspects relate to the individual and collective well-being, interfere in the way of administration and management of shares, which the public authorities are responsible, and depend on changes in thought and action of those involved. Difficulties and obstacles to the expansion of therapeutic offer users of SUS, inserting the herbal medicine in health services, are shown as indicative actions proposed interventions at the municipal, state and federal, individual and collective, local and global. However, it is necessary to have care in the insertion of herbal and medicinal plants in the SUS, not hurting the existing cultural value, but combining common goals of health promotion, prevention of adverse effects of herbal medicines, as well as maintenance principles as respect, citizenship and cooperation.