Estudo comparativo das plantas medicinais utilizadas na produção de fitoterápicos tradicionais do centro de saúde alternativa de Muribeca em relação à indústria farmacêutica no Brasil

Abstract

The present work aims to address in a historical way how public policies directed to public health in Brazil have been modified over time and how is the relationship of production and valuation of knowledge between the Brazilian State, Pharmaceutical Industry in the country and the Muribeca Alternative Health Center (CESAM). Thismaterial raises the issue of the difficulties that research in the country faces in obtaining investments for the development of herbal medicines, as well as forobtaining their patents. Factors that play a fundamental role, aiming at thest rengthening and development of health biotechnology in the country, but which suffer from a lack of investments for its expansion and consolidation, which can bereverted to direct benefits to the Brazilian population, directly impacting national sovereignty. Given the situations exposed in the present work, the relationship and role that the Brazilian State and its various agents have and fulfill, in this sense, in our society, within the framework of capitalism, where the non valorization of traditional and popular knowledge is perpetuated in To the detriment of a total political, financial and technological dependence on the large pharmaceutical multinationals, the medicines and the various therapeutic forms continue to betreated as merchandise and little accessible to the Brazilian population.