Abstract
Herbal remedies may act as a micropolitical therapeutic device to the mental health field. This experience report shows the course of a community garden in a Family Health Unit (USF) in the south of Bahia, aiming to rescue the local knowledge in order to produce a visibility field. The cartography was used as theoretic-methodological to analyze the effects of the vegetable garden device on the participants’ health and on the construction of a bond between workers and the service users. About 10 people participated, mostly black, poor and elder women that were local residents. The vegetable garden turned into a potent device for the meetings of primary health care users, for therapeutic follow-up, for building bonds, cultivating medicinal plants, reducing consumption of allopathic medication and even for the production of vegetables and fruits to feed the participants.
Keywords:
Herbal remedies; Mental health; Primary Health Care