Bahiana performs PICS Moment on Homeopathy

The Center for Integrative and Complementary Practices in Health of Bahiana (CEPICS) held another PICS Moment, on August 9, at Campus Brotas. The guest speaker, professor and physician-homeopath Mônica da Cunha Oliveira, explained the fundamental concepts of homeopathy and how it can be applied in everyday medical practice.

The space proposed by CEPICS, under the coordination of professors Renata Roseghini (Biomedicine), Carolina Pedroza and Simone Cardoso (Nursing), was part of a set of actions aimed at expanding people's access to integrative experiences, whether through research groups, events or extension courses conducted by Bahiana.

According to Renata Roseghini, the PICS Moment is an opportunity for Bahiana present integrative and complementary health practices to internal and external audiences. She reports that the program has been running since the beginning of the year, when traditional Chinese medicine, meditation and bioenergetic analysis were discussed on these occasions. “In the next meetings, we will still have aromatherapy, scheduled for the 6th of September, in Cabula and the sacred secular practices, scheduled for the 8th of November, in Brotas. ” adds.

The teacher also emphasized that she intends to continue the initiative next year, as it is a space for raising awareness. "There is a national PICS policy being implemented in SUS, so it is necessary that higher education institutions are aligned with this demand." For her, it is even necessary to draw students' attention to the existence of these practices.

Nursing course professor Sandra Portela assesses that integrative practices, in general, have a very positive bias, “since the proposal is to integrate both the physical and mental conditions, including the individual's spirituality and religiosity. ” Another important point mentioned by Sandra is the “look of the caregiver”, which, in addition to monitoring, differs from traditional medicine in terms of patient reception: “I realize that there is a very special way of welcoming those seeking these practices. The way of talking and even asking what kind of food the patient likes or if he feels colder or hotter, makes the doctor immerse himself in a person's peculiar meander”. Considering that the PICS are a means of integrating the best possibilities of care, the nurse says that she uses the practices both as a professional and as a patient, and considers them “fantastic and innovative”.

The student Carla Lima Costa, from the 9th semester of Pharmacy at Faculdade Estácio, participated in the PICS moment thanks to the dissemination of the event in groups of friends. “I really liked it because I learned topics that I hadn't seen in college”, explains the future pharmacist, who is thinking of specializing in the area of ​​homeopathy, adding that “it is interesting to experience what the market offers, in order to enrich professional training”.