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Phytotherapy is a therapeutic practice based on herbal preparations, aimed at treating disease. Professionals from different areas of activity make use of traditional and scientific knowledge when preparing different types of plant preparations for this purpose. As phytotherapy is no longer considered a practice based solely on traditional knowledge and has become a very current topic due to its scientific merit, which has been proven to be recognized, and has become an increasingly common practice by health professionals as it causes fewer side effects than conventional allopathic medicines, and which have therefore seen an increase in use by current societies, this work is justified.
Due to its historical importance and resurgence in the market of modern herbal medicines, the objective of this work was to carry out a literature review on phytotherapy. Therefore, in this work, we sought to answer the following question: What are the main current approaches to phytotherapy? To answer this question, a literature review was carried out europe ****** number list based on texts obtained from Google Scholar, which mainly dealt with the topics history of phytotherapy, types and approaches to phytotherapy, regulation of phytotherapeutics in Brazil and medicinal, nutritional and integrative phytotherapy , which gave rise to the topics of this article. As a result, we can see how rich this therapeutic practice is and how important the use of herbal medicines is as they can be associated with traditional medicine precisely because they can cause fewer side effects than conventional allopathic medicines. Keywords: History of Phytotherapy, Types and Approaches of Phytotherapy, Regulation of herbal medicines in Brazil, Nutritional and integrative medicinal herbal medicine.
INTRODUCTION According to the Aurélio dictionary, “phytotherapy is a therapeutic practice that uses medicinal plants and their derivatives to provide health and treat diseases” (FERREIRA, 2010) and medicinal plants, in turn, “are those that have in one or more organs substances used for therapeutic purposes or that are the starting point for chemical and pharmaceutical synthesis, called active principles” (CARVALHO et al. , 2010). Also known as herbal medicine or botanical medicine, phytotherapy has been practiced for thousands of years in various cultures around the world (FLORIANO, 2016). Phytotherapy is based on the use of different parts of plants, such as roots, leaves, bark, flowers and seeds, which contain natural chemical compounds with therapeutic properties (OLIVEIRA, 2011). These compounds can have pharmacological effects on the human body, such as anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial actions, among others (MOREIRA, 2020).
Due to its historical importance and resurgence in the market of modern herbal medicines, the objective of this work was to carry out a literature review on phytotherapy. Therefore, in this work, we sought to answer the following question: What are the main current approaches to phytotherapy? To answer this question, a literature review was carried out europe ****** number list based on texts obtained from Google Scholar, which mainly dealt with the topics history of phytotherapy, types and approaches to phytotherapy, regulation of phytotherapeutics in Brazil and medicinal, nutritional and integrative phytotherapy , which gave rise to the topics of this article. As a result, we can see how rich this therapeutic practice is and how important the use of herbal medicines is as they can be associated with traditional medicine precisely because they can cause fewer side effects than conventional allopathic medicines. Keywords: History of Phytotherapy, Types and Approaches of Phytotherapy, Regulation of herbal medicines in Brazil, Nutritional and integrative medicinal herbal medicine.
INTRODUCTION According to the Aurélio dictionary, “phytotherapy is a therapeutic practice that uses medicinal plants and their derivatives to provide health and treat diseases” (FERREIRA, 2010) and medicinal plants, in turn, “are those that have in one or more organs substances used for therapeutic purposes or that are the starting point for chemical and pharmaceutical synthesis, called active principles” (CARVALHO et al. , 2010). Also known as herbal medicine or botanical medicine, phytotherapy has been practiced for thousands of years in various cultures around the world (FLORIANO, 2016). Phytotherapy is based on the use of different parts of plants, such as roots, leaves, bark, flowers and seeds, which contain natural chemical compounds with therapeutic properties (OLIVEIRA, 2011). These compounds can have pharmacological effects on the human body, such as anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial actions, among others (MOREIRA, 2020).