Las plantas medicinales en la terapéutica
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s.d.1989
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One of the prerequisites for the success of primary health care is the availability and use of suitable drugs. Plants have always been a common source of medicaments, either in the form of traditional preparations or as pure active principles In developing countries, particularly, it would be advantageous to identify locally available plants of plant extracts that could be added to the national lists of drugs, or that could even replace some of the pharmaceutical products that need to be imported from other countries This article presents a list of plant-derived drugs, the names of the plant sources, and their actions and uses in therapy
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Medicinal plants in therapy
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