Traditional phytotherapy is the oldest therapy used in the world, for millennia. All ancient peoples had extensive knowledge of empirical phytotherapy. Plants have been used as a source of food for humans, but also as sources of medicine and healing drinks.
The chemistry and pharmacology of plants, developed extensively in recent decades, has helped to appreciate, understand and expand the use of many of the known plants.
Î at the same time, through the synthesis of some active principles from plants, phytotherapy represented the starting point of modern medicine today.
Even if allopathic doctors have moved away from the holistic principles that characterize it, they owe many of the medicines they prescribe daily to phytotherapy.
Modern surgery would not be possible without modern anesthetics, all derived from active plant compounds, or modern cardiology would not do without digitalis or strophanthin, derived from plants. Most modern cytostatics (vincristine, vinblastine, etc.) are synthesized starting from plants. And the examples are numerous.
Modern phytotherapy has developed and branched out in many directions, being enriched by each of them. Thus, aromatherapy, floral therapies, gemotherapy, essential oil therapy and many others – constitute important therapeutic resources.
Plant tinctures, healing plant drinks (infusions, decoctions, macerations), local or general washes with plants, using plants in food, in pillows or decorative items for the home – as component parts of traditional phytotherapy, they remain among the ”milestones” of natural medicine and the healing process.
Our new Site will present phytotherapy articles, plant monographs (because it is essential to know and recognize the plants we use in therapy) and therapeutic strategies using phytotherapy techniques.
