Plants have always been present in the practices of self-care in situations of suffering. Its use can trigger other forms of health care, as well as a knowledge or recognition of this knowledge by professionals and users. The thesis aims to understand the meaning attributed by people to the use of plants in the practices of self-care in situations of suffering The specific objectives were to know the meaning given by people to the use of plants as a practice of self-care in a situation of suffering; verify the practices of selfcare performed by people through plants in a situation of suffering; and identify the plants used in situations of suffering. For this, the study was anchored in the anthropology of health by Arthur Kleinman, Eduardo...