Fitoterapia: uma revisão bibliográfica

Abstract

Phytotherapy emerged over two thousand years before Christ , one of the oldest methods and provides a way to handle the active ingredients and substances of medicinal plants with therapeutic purpose to prevent, treat and cure lasting epidemics to the present day . The use of medicinal plants and herbal medicines have evolved in Brazil , because of its great plant diversity and low cost associated with emerging therapies various regulations for validation in compliance with public health. The objective of this study is to describe on the subject herbal medicine, and analyze its use in primary care , because it is a process that lasted many years until it was released its production and manipulation of medicinal plants and herbal medicine due to its importance in public health for the treatment of diseases .