Medicinal plants and their interaction with drugs used to control systemic arterial hypertension

Chronic diseases with evidence for systemic arterial hypertension are one of the main causes mortality in country. The treatment these is done through allopathic medicines and medicinal plants, their association increasingly frequent thus also increases risk interactions. A literature review was carried out on implications use plants interaction drugs used to control hypertension, based works published between 2014 2022, addressing interactions popular knowledge drug approached that showed were Allium sativum L., Passiflora sp., Cymbopogon citratus, Lippia alba (Mill.), Citrus Sechium edule Alpinia zerumbet. possible evaluated it observed pharmacodynamic type, so caution necessary when concomitantly other or without guidance a professional can bring harm health decrease effect body.