FROM EMPIRICAL TO MODERN PHYTOTHERAPY

The interest in therapies based on phytotherapeutical products has been growing ever since the second half of the last century, mostly due to the fact that natural medicines, made of plants, are more compatible with the human body, metabolically being more alike and more easily tolerated than the synthetic medicines. The general trend in modern medicine is more and more related to the use of phytotherapy (the treatment based on pharmaceutical products made of plants), trying to limit the use of synthetic medicines as much as possible. Phytotherapy is a real choice in modern therapies, together with chemotherapy, physiotherapy and balneology, electrotherapy, food hygiene etc.