According to the World Health Organization (WHO), medicinal plants are Represented by all wild or cultivated species, when used as a resource to prevent, relieve, cure or modify a normal or pathological physiological process or when These are sources of drugs or their precursors. In 1978, the WHO recognized medicines of plant origin as a resource Treatment (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, 2001) and recommended to countries that Perform regional surveys and botanical identification of plant species used in Traditional folk medicine; encourage and indicate the use of medicinal plants with Proven efficacy and safety and contraindicate the use of medicinal practices Popular practices considered useless or harmful (CAVALCANTE, 2010). The development of biological activity studies of natural products, studies of the Knowledge and use of natural products in local populations contribute to the Discovery of cost-effective alternative ways to treat and prevent diseases of these Populations, in addition to originating data for the conservation of the biodiversity of native species and in improving the quality of life of the population studied, in addition to maintaining the traditions of the Popular knowledge (PAULA et al., 2001). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), medicinal plants are Represented by all wild or cultivated species, when used as a resource to prevent, relieve, cure or modify a normal or pathological physiological process or when These are sources of drugs or their precursors.
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