Memória Institucional da Fitoterapia em Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The present study if he/she intended to rescue the Institutional Memory of Phytotherapy in Juiz de Fora, in the last 12 years, analyzing the participation of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), of the community pastorals, of the partners and of the City Managers (SUS and PMJF). Data were collected among 1990 - 2001 (creation of Horto of Medicinal Plants of UFJF ties the implantation of Phytotherapy in SUS/JF, as consequence of the current National Politics of Medicinal Plants and of Phytotherapeutic Drugs. The work was accomplished in the extent of UFJF (Horto of Medicinal plants, Pharmaceutical Department of FFB and Department of Botany of ICB) and in SUS/JF - Department of Unconventional Therapies (DTNC) -, in three Basic Units of Basic Health (UBS) and in the Emergency Medical Service at Rua Marechal Deodoro (PAM/Marechal) of Juiz de Fora. To assist to the objective of the study interviews, observations and relative analyses they were accomplished to the use of medicinal plants and Phytotherapeutic Drugs in the city of Juiz de Fora, through laboratories, commercial firms, herbists, “mateiros”, community agents of health, pastorals of the health and of the family and of the child and the population in general. He/she tells, facts happened before 1990, as the Rising of the Medicinal Plants used by the population of Juiz de Fora (1969), accomplished by teachers of the Department of Pharmacology (DFAR/ICBG) of UFJF. On those last twelve years, the existence of two types was verified of I trade of medicinal plants in the city of Juiz de Fora: a popular one practiced by the herbists in free markets and bottom of back yards and another legalized at Drugstores and houses of natural products. The mark of that course is present in the text and in the delimitation of the work, orientated by the registration of the facts and events that culminated with the implantation of Phytotherapy in the SUS/JF.