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Phytotherapy is the treatment based on the use of plants. Phytotherapy is better known as herbal medicine.

In phytotherapy, health complaints and diseases are treated with herbal remedies that are believed to have a medicinal effect. Sometimes these are also administered for an alleged preventive effect.



Phytotherapeutics are often defined as "Drugs containing as active ingredients exclusively plants, parts of plants or plant materials or combinations thereof, in their raw or processed state".

Phytotherapy is not necessarily an alternative medicine. The use of modern medicines has grown from phytotherapy.

 Most phytotherapeutics have not yet been sufficiently researched, but in recent years phytotherapeutics have been investigated for their medicinal effects, side effects and safety.

If phytotherapeutics prove to be better than placebo in a double-blind method and also meet the set safety standards, then these phytotherapeutics are also used in conventional medicine. A typical example of this is digitalis, yew and St. John's wort. There is no strong scientific evidence for other spices such as cinnamon and turmeric.

Author: Prof. Dr. Dirk Devroey - Latest update: 0000-00-00 - Copyright: Clinifacts 2024