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The validity of the medicinal use of plants has been and will be something intrinsic to nature, and therefore the human as part of it. The curative properties of various tree species extracted were used to remedy the conditions that the companies have had to fight. Egyptians, Greeks and Romans came to a large number of plants for its amazing healing powers settled the foundations of medieval pharmacopoeia.

Today, unlike in the past or centuries, medicinal plants have fallen into the background. Since the metabolic chemistry of the medicinal properties of plants by the first pharmaceutical companies back in the eighteenth century, the monopoly healing became less interested as competition.

New approaches and current medical opinion have persisted and strive to make these new therapies, effective remedial alternatives. Phytotherapy is back and hard. It was the Greeks who coined this term (Fitos, meaning plant, therapy, defined as cure) to refer to the contributions that certain plants had over various physical and mental disorders in humans and animals.

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