Formas de abordagem sobre plantas medicinais, fitoterápicos e Unidades Básicas de Saúde em periódicos brasileiros.

Abstract

In recent decades the search for alternative therapies has increased considerably, especially regarding the use of medicinal plants. This practice, which is the result of man's relationship with nature, permeates the entire history of mankind and is currently being motivated and expanded beyond households, reaching the basic health units as an incentive to produce gardens within this space. Thus, this work aimed to identify the approaches related to medicinal plants, herbal medicine and UBS in journals circulating in Brazil. To achieve this objective, an exploratory, descriptive, qualitative approach was used, using secondary data from scientific production from 2005 to 2018. A survey of the studies indexed to the Virtual Health Library such as Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences (LILACS) and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), as well as using Google academic search. We identified 31 studies of these, 18 articles were analyzed in full. As main result it was observed that the analyzed articles deal with medicinal plants, herbal medicine and Basic Health Units (BHU) from the perception, be it the perception of the population as a whole, BHU users, health workers, students or; from the literature review. From the analysis of the references it was possible to begin to outline a possible method of procedure for implanting medicinal gardens in UBS.