Brazilian health workers and healers team up on medicinal gardens
Medicinal Plants
If you've ever grown mint for tea or aloe for burns, this is the same idea scaled up: towns growing their own medicine cabinets and pairing grandmother's remedies with lab testing to make them safer and more trusted.
A new health research group in Rondônia, Brazil hosted its first public event about 'Living Pharmacies,' which are community gardens of medicinal plants that local clinics use as part of everyday healthcare. Scientists, doctors, government health managers, and people who hold traditional plant knowledge sat down together to figure out how to back up these plant remedies with real evidence. The goal is to shape health policy and training so traditional plant medicine and modern science work side by side instead of staying separate.
Key Findings
The event was the first official activity of Rondônia's newly created health evidence center, established by Portaria IESPRO No. 37 on March 26, 2026
It convened researchers, health professionals, policymakers, and holders of traditional knowledge in a structured public dialogue format
Discussions directly fed into Brazil's National Policy on Medicinal Plants and Phytotherapeutics and ongoing health worker training programs
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A health institute in Rondônia, Brazil held a public forum bringing together researchers, health workers, and traditional healers to discuss 'Living Pharmacies,' gardens of medicinal plants used in community healthcare, aiming to connect scientific evidence with traditional knowledge for public health policy.
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I Painel Cidadão: Farmácias Vivas: relatório técnico-científico
O I Painel Cidadão constitui a primeira ação estruturada pelo recém-instituído Núcleo de Evidências em Saúde, oficializado pela Portaria IESPRO nº 37, de 26 de março de 2026. A iniciativa reafirma ...
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