Uso racional de plantas medicinais e fitoterápicos: a necessidade da prática da atenção farmacêutica na fitoterapia

Abstract

Public policies related to herbal and phytotherapeutic plants have advanced in the last two decades in Brazil, demonstrating that the implementation of phytotherapy in the Unified Health System (SUS) comes to meet the demand and social need of the Brazilian population, aiming at a rational use. Among the health professionals, the pharmacist has a very important role to assure the communities and the patient an effective and safe use of this therapy. The development of pharmaceutical care and the application of its rational pharmacotherapy decision-making method, pharmacotherapy workup, allow a complete evaluation of the phytotherapy in use by the patient, considering him as a single individual, respecting and understanding her beliefs, longings and your experience with medicinal plants. The application of the principles of evidence-based health is necessary in the search for the best available scientific evidence, collaborating for the clinical decision of the pharmacist in the application of pharmaceutical care. This article is about a narrative review with the objective of discussing the role of the pharmaceutical profession in the co- responsibility to ensure the rational use of medicinal and phytotherapeutic plants and the development of FA in phytotherapy, with the application of the rational process of decision- making in pharmacotherapy, within the scope of a patient-centered practice and evidence- based health. It is concluded that the rational decision-making process in pharmacotherapy, with a patient-centered practice developed by pharmaceutical care, allows to connect clinical data, subjective experience and the application of evidence- based health, thus ensuring a rational use of medicinal plants and herbal remedies Further studies on the application of pharmaceutical care in phytotherapy are needed.