Public policy has emerged as a sub-area of political science and government action in the US and in Europe in the 1940s. Started in Brazil, with some specificities, in the mid-1980s in the context of redemocratisation, while maintaining the broad lines and main characteristics of these two matrices that inspired it: focus on the actions and idearies of the actors involved; centrality of the State; multidisciplinarity and analysis of government actions. Here some contributions from geography are proposed public policies based on the consideration of geographical space as a hybrid of materiality and actions: in addition of the actions, they also condition policies on the arrangement of objects in the territory. In addition, the territory is used a multitude of actors, which reveals the multidimensionality of political power and calls for consideration not only state action but non-state actors in the conduct of policies. The determining role of the the territory used is analysed here from the policy of adopting phytotherapy (medicinal and phytoteractic plants) the Single Health System (SUS) in municipalities in different Brazilian regions.