Uso de plantas medicinais no município de Benevides/Pará: elaboração do memento fitoterápico e construção da política municipal de plantas medicinais e fitoterápicos

Abstract

The use of medicinal plants in the district of Benevides: Elaboration of the phytotherapeutical compendium and Introduction of the Politics of Medicinal Plants in the district of Benevides are a research, developed with the objective of lifting the vegetable species used by users of SUS and health's professionals, integrated in the health strategy of the district's family of Benevides, with views to the elaboration of the phytotherapeutical compendium of the district, as first step the institution of the district was used developed by Ethnopharmacy, with application of the Politics of medicinal plants. For the rising of the die, the meth form Ethnopharmaceutical to the users of SUS and health of professionals, that it all owed quantitative and qualitative analysis of the die. The results indicated that the use of medicinal plants for the population interviewee is an intense practice and it is due to the fact of the access difficulty to the synthetic drug prescribed in the U nidades Saúde da Famíla (USF) of the district for the users and the low pattern of income of the interviewed families. With relationship to the health's professionals the results indicated, sensibility of the same ones to the theme and disposition for pres cription, since it has available training, clinical protocol and medicinal plants in USF. For composition of the phytotherapeutical compendium, were selected, the Chenopodum ambrosioides, Linn (mastruz); Eleutherine plicata, Herb (marupazinho); Mentha pule gium, Linn. (hortelãzinho); Coleus amboinicus, Lour. (boldo) and Arrabidaea chica, Velrt. (parirí), according to the criteria of citation frequency, epidemic profile of the district, interest of Ministério da Saúde and easiness of propagation of the species.