Integralidade no cuidado nas Medicinas Naturais: a resposta dos usuários ao medicamento homeopático

Abstract

This work makes considerations about Homoeopathy, emphasizing some of its theoretical and practical concepts and the social construction of the claim that performs it, viewing to answer some doubts for its anxious users. The initiative of this study is justified by the increasing necessity in understanding better some integrative and complementary practices of SUS like Homoeopathy having a new perspective of view: the comprehension of their utilization by both assistants and patients, contributing with the social research of them, aiming at their institutionalization in Brazil s Public Health System. Trying to comprehend the understanding of physicians and users about the results of Homoeopathic treatment was the goal of this work, considering, then, their speeches, tempting to identify a possible correlation of them with the ideas of integrality of care. It is a evaluative, qualitative research, adopting the patients and the homoeopaths as key-informers, having the handbooks of the first ones as a source of secondary additional information. There were chosen three kinds of attendances: two of them in public exclusive homeopathic services (in Juiz de Fora MG e Rio de Janeiro RJ) and the other in PSF in Volta Redonda RJ. The discussion of the interviews (ordered based on different collected speeches) was analyzed, relating them with the most representative categories of integrality found: the total approach of the patient, the autonomy and the care. With this, a perspective of having them included in clinical questionnaires could be possible, inviting the professionals to reflect (close to the patients) each step of the treatment and its course, registering objective observations, contributing with the analysis and evaluation of the integrality in homeopathic treatment. The conclusions contribute in not only amplify the possibilities of homoeopathic evaluation considering the topic integrality, but in affording some advances in the process of its institutionalization in the public healthy system too, giving validation to it. Besides, the binomial doctor-patient is until considered, suggesting a constant reflection about the efficacy of the therapeutic process.