Plasencia ITR, Godínez PM, Escalona GP, Pla MOR, Arias CM

Language: Spanish
References: 11
Page: 727-740
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Medicinal plants are one of the most widely used alternatives by humanity throughout the evolutionary period, for their preventive and curative properties against diseases. In 2010, MNT's curriculum strategy was redesigned in the medical career, which is expected to consolidate and systematize work in an interdisciplinary way.
Objective: to identify the level of knowledge that students in 5th year of the medical degree on Phytotherapy have.
Methods: for the collection and obtaining of information a survey in which aspects are collected aimed at identifying aspects related to the knowledge and use of medicinal plants in students of the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCMB) Granma, as well as sex with greater knowledge of Phytotherapy, through which they have obtained information, level of effectiveness and medicinal plants with frequent use.
Results: women were found to have more solid knowledge about medicinal plants, predominate the age of 22 years of the sample, 61% of students acquired knowledge during the career, considering less effective MNT 65%, the plants with frequent use are chamomile, guava, garlic and oregano.
Conclusions: the results show that there is knowledge of herbal medicine, but much remains to be done in this field to increase the therapeutic medical arsenal and continue the training of students in the use of these techniques, for the benefits they offer in the treatment of patients, while making them increasingly accepted by the population.

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