Fitotherapy as an exponent of Natural and Traditional Medicine in Cuba

Abstract

Fitotherapy employs medicinal plants for a healing purpose and it has been used since ancient times. This discipline has been known for over 500 years. Not in vain, natural remedies and wide variety of medicinal plants have been for long the only and main resource available for doctors. This is the reason why the knowledge of herbal species with medicinal properties and products obtained from them was developed.

Throughout the present paper a detailed description of Fitotherapy fundamentals so as the curative properties of the plants is made .