Floral Therapy’s integrality and the viability of its incorporation to Unified Health System

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.201015764

Abstract

This study aims to argue for incorporating Floral Therapy to Unified Health System (SUS) therapeutic practices as a strategy
for making concrete the principle of integral health assistance. It is a qualitative and exploratory study based on the guiding categories:
“emotional/physical”, “singularity”, “efficaciousness” and “insertion in SUS”. Data were collected from interviews with Floral Therapy users
and professionals of a Model Health Center (CSM), a Basic Unit of SUS in Porto Alegre (RS). Results show that Floral Therapy, due to
treating patients as singular and wholly beings, allows for a differentiated attention. In seeking integrality, professionals of CSM point as
limitations: professional training based in a mechanist and biologicist paradigm; sub-specializations; and the lack of resources, mainly
financial. On the other hand, this research evidenced non allopathic practices such as Floral Therapy to be low cost. Floral Therapy is
a therapy consistent with SUS principles and may favor the system efficaciousness. Thus, it would be opportune and viable that Floral
Therapy be evaluated by its peculiarities and integrated to SUS, being recognized and made available as a therapeutic option to the
population, so that it can contribute in guaranteeing integral health assistance .