Amapá, APd
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Reference Center for natural treatment; introduces greater
diversity of Integrative and Complementary Practices in Brazil; institutionalized
by state law 10,068/2007. The experience is based on cultural diversity, including
indigenous, of the state of Amapá, and also on the biodiversity of the Amazon
Rainforest. Interculturality is the background that guides the work practices
developed in partnership with midwives, river dwellers and indigenous
healers. |
Betim, MG17
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Appeared due to the need to seek alternatives to control the high
cost of medicines and their side effects. As well as increasing interest and need
to guide users in the correct use of plant medicine. The program was in
partnership with public and private networks in the municipality: Serviço
Assistencial Salão do Encontro , Agriculture Secretariat, Environmental
Secretariat, Health Surveillance. The inter-disciplinary team was formed of an
agronomist, a pharmacist, an agricultural technician, a doctor, nurse, social
worker, dentist, community health agents and a physiotherapist. |
Campinas, SP27
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In Campinas, phytotherapy was implemented through establishing a
Farmácia de Manipulação Botica da Família established by
municipal ordinance 13/2001, based on prior history of primary health care
initiatives in the municipality. The aim was to respect knowledge, customs and
practices, providing education to broaden local culture and stimulate correct use
of medicinal plants. |
Cuiabá, MTc
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The practices of cultivating medicinal and herbal plants in Cuiabá
take place through the Phytotherapy, Medicinal and Herbal Plant Program, created
in July 2004 and regulated by Decree 4,188/2004 by the Cuiabá Health Secretariat
in Mato Grosso. The program aims to guarantee access to the rational use of
medicinal plants and phytotherapeutic medicines safely and efficaciously and with
quality, contributing to the development of this sector in Brazil. Medicinal plant
gardens were established in health care units and treatment homes and phytotherapy
medicines are distributed through the health care network, community education
activities, training for professionals, identifying plants and producing publicity
material to promote the program and praise awareness among professionals. |
Curitiba, PR16
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This was the result of an intersectoral and multi-professional
project created in 1997 with the aim of providing medicinal plants with botanical
identification and scientifically tested for use in medical and dental
prescriptions. Moreover, stimulating the use of medicinal plants in the community
followed the recommendations of environmental education. The program was
incentivized by the Municipal Environmental Secretariat, which coordinated the
Integration Program for children and adolescents in partnership with the
Universidade Federal do Paraná and the State Universities of
Maringá and Ponta Grossa. The partnerships with the universities contributed to
training the pharmacists of the future and stimulated the development of the
national pharmaceutical industry in the region. |
Florianópolis, SC41
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Permanent educational actions regarding medicinal plants in
Florianópolis/SC were established in six health care units in 2012. The
phytotherapy-related actions were supported by the Didactic Garden of Medicinal
Plants of the Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina and by other local associations. The actions that were
developed were: workshop for recognizing medicinal plants aimed at community
health agents, didactic gardens in primary health care units, permanent education
activities on medicinal plants for doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists and
creating a municipal treatment memorandum. In the Sul de Ilha health care center,
the use of medicinal plants is part of the local community culture, a factor that
motivates the professionals to become qualified in this area. The phytotherapy
workshop by the Associação Vida Verde Florianópolis/SC , created
28 June 1996, was an initiative of the health department of the Paróquia
São Francisco Xavier, in Saco Grande II, Florianópolis/SC, in
partnership with women in the community (willing to study, produce and distribute
phytotherapy products) and the Universidade do Sul de Santa
Catarina . The main aim was to spread solidarity in the community,
rescuing popular knowledge of medicinal plants and to integrate knowledge in order
to improve quality of life. |
Fortaleza, CE24
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The oldest experience in Brazil, influencing the creation of
actions/programs regarding medicinal plants and phytotherapy in primary health
care. The project was called Farmácias Vivas . It was created by
Francisco José de Abreu Matos of the Universidade Federal do
Ceará , in 1984, with the aim of developing methodology of interaction
between popular knowledge and science based on a social approach to guide use of
medicinal plants based on botanical identification and to create a reference of
phytotherapy pharmaceutical formulas accessible to the population of the
Northeast. The Farmácias Vivas project includes a set of actions:
ethno-botanical field survey or bibliographical research, recording and validating
medicinal plants, collecting plants in the field, training human resources,
setting up a Farmácia Viva unit, producing informative material
and popular education. Farmácia Viva is a great school and a
great example to the world of effective social technology that aids treatment of
around 80.0% of common illness in primary care, e.g., skin problems, respiratory
and digestive problems, rheumatic pain, intestinal parasites and labial and
genital herpes. After its creation in the state of Ceará, it became a national
reference for the whole country and for structuring ordinance 886/2010. |
Foz do Iguaçu, PR9
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The Itaipu herbalist was created in 2005 and contains 18 types of
plants to treat 10 common illnesses. In 2007, the first training pf doctors,
nurses, pharmacists and dentists took place in partnership with the
Instituto Brasileiro de Plantas Medicinais (Brazilian Institute
of Medicinal Plants). In order to produce the primary material, 54 agriculturists
were trained and established in 17 units to demonstrate the cultivation of
medicinal plants and provide technical assistance and rural extension
activities. |
Goiânia, GOb
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The Goiânia Phytotherapy Project was created in 1986 through an
agreement between the Goiás Health Secretariat, the Ministry of Health and the
Instituto Brasileiro de Ciência e Tecnologia Maharishi . In
Goiânia, Ayurvedic phytotherapy was used. In 1987 an outpatient service was
established, with a small phytotherpay laboratory. In 1988, the Ayurvedic
Phytotherapy Outpatient clinic was transferred to a wing of the former
Hospital Juscelino Kubitschek . The Hospital de
Medicina Alternativa is recognized throughout Brazil and
internationally as a reference for integrated public health practices. The
hospital cultivates around 60 species of medicinal plants in its garden to prepare
phytotherapies and to preserve them. |
Itajaí, SC20
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In Itajaí/SC, the insertion of medicinal plants was an initiative
of the arterial hypertension control program in partnership with the extension
project by the Universidade do Vale do Itajaí , named the
university extension in family health project, covering professors and students of
speech therapy, psychology, dentistry, medicine, nursing, nursing and pharmacy
courses. The program encourages solidarity, exchanging experiences, linking the
individual with life and with the health care team, the social group and
humanization. |
Itapipoca, CE10
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Begun in 1999, with the support of the Municipal Health
Secretariat, the Universidade Federal do Ceará , the
Fundação Cearense de Pesquisa e Célula de Fitoterapia do Estado do
Ceará , social reform support program, with the aim of incentivizing
women (who use medicinal plants) to make homemade remedies so as to improve their
families health and quality of life, based on botanically identified plants and
scientific evidence. |
Juiz de Fora, MGf
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In partnership with the Universidade Federal de Juiz de
Fora , the Society for improving neighborhoods, children, family and
health departments, community associations. The aim of this program was to recover
popular knowledge and raise awareness of the correct use of medicinal plants in
popular medicine. To do this, it was decided to follow regional medicinal plant
based medicine, as well as experimental and scientific proof of therapeutic
effects. |
Londrinas, PR4,12
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Established in 1996. The aim was to establish a dialogue between
two culturally different universes: popular knowledge and biomedicine. The
backdrop to these discussions was the humanization of popular practices and of
universal health care in the official services. The project counted on the
partnership of care and educational institutions and resulted in the construction
of a plant medicine unit in partnership with a variety of local institutions. The
program had therapeutic gardens and six industrialized phytotherapies, three of
which were psychiatric remedies, aiming to de-medicinalize psychotropic
users. |
Maracanaú, CE42
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Begin in 1992. Its basic structure was composed of a garden with
four plots for cultivating medicinal plants and a laboratory of manipulation. The
program dispenses phytoterapy medicines to the community through prescriptions
from a family health care strategy health care professional. |
Maringá, PR36
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Officially established in September 2000. The program is supported
by the Universidade Estadual de Maringá . It is a pharmacy,
following the format established in Resolution 33/2,000 with the aim of providing
the population with safe, effective and cheap treatment alternatives. |
Pereiro, CEe
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Begun in 1995 with the establishment of a medicinal plant garden in
which there is a technician with medicinal plant knowledge. In 1997, a
bio-chemical pharmacist and an agronomist were contracted and the project was
broadened according to the instructions of the Farmácia Viva in
Ceará. A memorandum was drawn up and a phytotherapy guide. The aim of the project
was to meet the population’s needs, taking into consideration cost-benefit and
user satisfaction with the treatment response. Phytotherapy medicines were
distributed in primary health units, dispensed by the municipal pharmacy in the
hospital. The project was supported by the Universidade Federal do
Ceará , the Centro Estadual de Fitoterapia (Fortaleza,
CE), municipal prefectures, health secretariats and hospitals and health
centers. |
Pindamonhangaba, SP37
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136 discussions on medicinal plants took place between 1992 and
2010, with 3,626 participants. The municipality provided didactic gardens and
phytotherapy medicines. The actions were coordinated by the municipality’s
Secretariat of Social Assistance. |
Presidente Castello Branco, SCa
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The aim of the project was to have plant nurseries of vegetable
species in home gardens, in schools and in primary care units in the municipality.
The initiative was linked to the “ Programa Castellense de coleta seletiva
de lixo ”, waste collection program that was a multisectoral project
(with municipal administration) linking all of the secretariats and carrying out
actions aiming at sustainability, recycling waste, producing organic fertilizer
and municipal development. In 2013, the municipality began permanent education
actions on medicinal plants for health care professionals, linking educational,
health and agricultural workers. It is considered a pioneering intersectorial
initiative to insert phytptherapy in the east of Santa Catarina state. |
Quatro Varas, CE11
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Established in 1988 by Airton Barreto. The aim of the project was
to reduce use of psychotropic medicines in cases suffering from panic attacks and
to defend the human rights of inhabitants of the Pirambú favela. Moreover, it
sought to synthesize popular and biomedical actions intervening in health
determinants. |
Recife, CE43
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Phytotherapy actions in Recife are developed in a center supporting
integrative practices and in primary health care units. The actions are guided on
the theoretical reference model of defending life and the Paidéia method,
(Co-management of collectives, Extended Clinic, Home, Singular Therapeutic
Projects and Matrix Support) |
Ribeirao Preto, SP31,37
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Established in 1992 and regulated by municipal law 8,778/2000
supported by the Sao Paulo state Health Secretariat, the Municipal health
conferential and the municipal health council. The municipality had a forest
garden, a formula manipulation laboratory, Farmácia Viva in
schools, crèches, health care units and community bodies together with family
health strategy teams. |
Rio de Janeiro, RJ29,39
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Stimulated by the Programa Estadual de Plantas Medicinais
regulated by state law 2,537/1996. It sought to establish public
policies in the area of preservation, research and use of medicinal plants.
Moreover, the program provided interaction with other public health programs,
sectors and services of the health secretariat and other secretariats in the
prefecture in Paquetá, working in the Pedro Bruno municipal school garden, where
interaction took place between adolescents and the elderly. |
Sao Paulo, SP37
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The program to produce phytotherapy and medicinal plants was
created by municipal law 14,903/2009 and regulated by municipal decree 51,435/2010
instituting the municipal program of phytotherapy and medicinal plant production
in the city of Sao Paulo. The city of Sao Paulo has a municipal health secretariat
executive group and a coordinator of sub-prefectures, a municipal relation of
phytotherapy that conducted a course on medicinal plants in the municipal school
of gardening ( Parque Ibirapuera ), in 2011, with 60 places in
the fifth year of the course, 4 multiprofessional courses of 30h in cultivating
medicinal plants and a phytotherapy action day in June 2011. |
Vila Velha, ES23
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Home phytotherapy pharmacy developed by the health department based
on solidarity. What the health department did was to establish a counterweight to
devices and mechanisms of power that configure the health field, creating new
possibilities to constitute citizens’ rights. |
Vitória, ES23,41
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Established in 1996, by law 4,352. The most notable initiative was
the “ Cultivando Saúde: Horta em Casas ” project, which aimed to
prevent disease by establishing gardens in wasteland. |