HORTO DIDÁTICO DE PLANTAS MEDICINAIS COMO PRÁTICA EDUCATIVA E PROPULSORA DA FITOTERAPIA NO SISTEMA ÚNICO DE SAÚDE

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.1492304129

• Palavras-chave: Práticas integrativas. Atenção Primária à Saúde. Universidade.

• Keywords: Integrative practices. Primary Health Care. University.

• Abstract: Phytotherapy in the Unified Health System (UHS or SUS in Portuguese) can be offered through the implementation of a medicinal plant garden and requires botanical identification, appropriate cultivation and plant species with validated therapeutic indications. In this context, the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (UNESC) has a Didactic Garden of Medicinal Plants (DGMP) for teaching in Health Courses of the Institution, in addition to research and extension groups that work with this theme and that, consequently, can contribute to the qualification of phytotherapy. This article aimed to survey the medicinal species available in the DGMP space, seeking to systematize them according to Evidence-Based Phytotherapy, based on the criteria of RDC 26/2014 of the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA). The DGMP has 81 species of medicinal plants, belonging to 35 botanical families, of which 49 are allochthonous species and 32 are native species to Brazil, with 24 species validated for 40 different therapeutic indications. From the total, 16 species are for the alimentary tract and metabolism, six for the central nervous system, six for the genitourinary system and five medicinal species categorized for the respiratory system.The knowledge elaborated, systematized and shared  about the species contemplated in the DGMP unites knowledge in favor of the valorization and development of the use of medicinal plants species in teaching and in health care, in the training of new professionals from the most diverse areas of knowledge and in the strengthening of the National Policy on Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapics in the SUS.