Desabrochar, fulorar e produzir sementes: cartografias afetivas e plantas medicinais no SUS

Abstract

This work was developed with a view to mapping the affectations arising from the interaction with people who carry popular knowledge related to medicinal plants (PM) in the context of Primary Health Care (PHC), bringing to light processes of my history that involve resistance to keep alive practices and beliefs about PM in the face of academic formations influenced by coloniality. Through cartography, it was possible to follow guardians of popular knowledge and understand subjective and singular aspects related to the forms of care that involve MPs. The territory of the study took place in the Family Health Unit (USF) Alto da Maravilha, which covers an urban quilombo. Data were produced between March 2021 and June 2022, based on the production of a field diary, in which the researcher recorded his affectations based on triggering situations. These subsidized the construction of seven cartographic tales that revealed experiences, affections, inspirations, pleasures, disappointments, learning and experiences. The paths of this cartographic research consisted of steps that followed each other without being separated, without an exclusive moment for data analysis, which was associated with production and discussion throughout the process, and was inspired by the four attentional varieties of the cartographer: the tracking, touchdown, landing and attentive reconnaissance. The cartographic tales revealed my process of connection with the PM, which was strengthened from the opening to the encounter with guardians of popular knowledge of the territory. Thus, I was mobilized to leave the “traditional” place of the doctor to learn in the territory with living experiences of care transmitted for many generations. I was able to experience other forms of care beyond biomedicine, as I rediscovered MP and the popular knowledge related to them, which made me broaden my perspective on the concept of PM. At the same time, it was noticeable that the relationship between the family health teams and the PM can contribute to the implementation of the principles of the SUS and the attributes of the PHC. The collective movements driven by this work gave rise to some products: The story told from Alto da Maravilha and a string used in collective spaces to contribute to the understanding of recognition as an urban quilombo. A bill built collectively, which provides for the renaming of the USF to the Alto da Maravilha Quilombola Family Health Unit. The creation of the Quilombo Urbano Alto da Maravilha website to disseminate historical, cultural, ecotourism and healing traditions of the Quilombo. Revitalization of the Living Pharmacy at USF Alto da Maravilha. Finally, the acceptance letter for the book chapter “Medicinal Plants and Coloniality of Knowledge in APS”.