Pharmaceutical Care in Homeopathic Treatment

Homeopathy is a therapy based on the principle of similarity. This therapy was proposed by the father of medicine, Hippocrates for almost 3000 years, thus developing the principle “Similia similibus curantur”. Therapy with homeopathic medicines is widely used in therapeutics, but the patient often has difficulty in understanding how the treatment should be conducted. The Pharmaceutical Care, one pact relationship between patient and pharmacist, presents itself as an appropriate tool to assist in obtaining positive results in homeopathic therapy. Objectives: to demonstrate how the pharmacotherapeutic follo—AFT assists in detecting and solving problems related to homeopathic medicine and promotes improvements in response to treatment. Methodology: we performed literature review of the portals: SCIELO, MEDLINE and Google academics. Patients were interviewed by pharmacotherapeutic monitoring that was conducted—AFT employing the Dader method adapted to pharmaceutical care in homeopathic medicines in a pharmacy, this place was located in Rio de Janeiro, from November-December 2010 and January 2011. The research was previously approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Unigranrio (CAAE: 4531.0.000.317-10). Results: the first of three interviews were identified DRM (drug related problem), having been required to apply IF—pharmaceutical intervention to adjust the behavior of the patient regarding the treatment and improvement of the results. Conclusions: the pharmacotherapeutic follow—AFT—introduced himself as appropriate methodology for managing patients on therapy with homeopathic medicines, and an improvement factor in the outcome of treatment of the patients.