Benzimento: a resistência em forma de cuidado clama por seu espaço nas políticas públicas de saúde integrativa

Resumen

The culture of blessing, which makes up Brazilian traditional medicine, has resisted over time and space, as it constitutes an empirical approach to therapeutic care.

The objective of this article is to point out the element of integral care, verifiable in the blessing procedures, and to relate it, critically, to the National Policy of Integrative Practices (PNIC's). For this, information extracted from an interview, carried out using the comprehensive methodology with Dona Mariinha, a faith healer in São Lourenço-MG, in October 2021, was used. Along with the primary source, we added the review of ethnographies, associated with the literature that deal with the fundamentals of comprehensive health care, as well as its implementation in the Brazilian Unified Health System (SUS). It was concluded that the excavations in Social Sciences, about ancestral epistemologies, knowledge, and practices that founded Brazilian traditional medicine, contain the potential for the development and elaboration of therapeutic care references, and for this reason, they must be preserved and used to become useful for the promotion of integral health, within the scope of the Unified Health System (SUS).