A prescrição farmacêutica homeopática e as perspectivas de atuação do profissional farmacêutico homeopata.

Abstract

Homeopathy is a medical science that there is more than 200 years and this therapeutic method is based on vitalists principles that seek to improve the health status of the patient by recognizing its nature and individuality. In this sense, the practice of pharmaceutical care contributes greatly to homeopathy because it establishes the evaluation of various aspects of the patient with the intention of promoting and protecting health, improving quality of life. The success of homeopathic treatment depends on the patient's full medical history in their physical, mental and emotional spheres allowing it to identify the symptomatology of the patient's simillimum. The pharmaceutical prescription regulated by the CFF Resolution 586, August 29, 2013, redeems the essential role of the pharmacist who has long was lost, approaching the most of their care vocation and its relation to the care of the patient's health. Thus, the physician pharmacist can, by a pharmaceutical query prescribe medications to treat minor disturbances. The treatment of minor disorders requires in most cases the use of OTC drugs or even palliative measures to promote and restore the patient's health. This study aimed to analyze what were the most dispensed homeopathic medicines in 2013 in a homeopathic pharmacy in the city of Cachoeira do Sul - RS, classify them as to the category, potency and dosage form, and identify their main indications and its relationship in the treatment of minor disturbances. Smaller disorders are: insomnia, constipation, cough, oral thrush, infant diarrhea, acute diarrhea, pediculosis, hemorrhoids, cold and pain. Five disorders for the manual preparation were selected. This study found 565 homeopathic medicines dispensed and / or prescribed in powers ranging from 1 to 2000, where 278 were excluded due to high power; the powers that stood out were from 1 to 6, on the chemical scale, totaling 74.56% of prescriptions. The 6CH power was the most suitable with 20.21%, followed by 5CH with 19.51%. The most prescribed medications were: Atropa belladonna (4.53%), Allium Cepa, trigonocephalus Lachesis and Arsenicum album (4.18%), Hydrastis canadensis (3.83%), Arnica montana, Kalium bichromicum, Natrum muriaticum and purple passionflower (3.48%), Valeriana officinalis (3.13%), Causticum (2.79%). The most widely used scale was the proximate Hahnemann (CH), the route of administration most commonly found in these medications was for internal use, the pharmaceutical form droplets obtained greatest dispensation with 86.41%, followed by single dose to 5.23%. To prepare the manual selected five minor health problems that can be treated with homeopathy: canker sores, headache, insomnia, cold and cough. This manual consists health problem of information, concept, etiology, ways to improve or prevent the problem, non-pharmacological treatment and homeopathic medications that may be prescribed, indicating a single active ingredient or associations. From minor disturbances were developed algorithms for choosing the appropriate homeopathic medicine.