The study aims at demonstrating the efficiency of phytotherapy in regulation of prolactin levels in patients diagnosed with pituitary macroprolactinoma. The study made use of workup outcomes submitted by treating healthcare facilities where the patients were first diagnosed with macroprolactinomas based on diagnostic imaging (MRI and/or CT), laboratory workup, and hormone status estimation. The...

Phytotherapy belongs to the area of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and the definition of phytotherapy is the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal uses. Interest in phytotherapy is growing in both Asian and western countries for its use in the prevention and management of disease, improvement of general health and anti-aging. And also, there are several studies about the e...

The origins of herbal therapeutics 1 The common origins of diet and medicine 1 Matters of taste 2 Shape-shifting 5 Food, medicine and pharmacology 7 Co-evolution 9 Wholeness and complexity 11 The development of herbal medicine as a practice 14 The nature of life is change 14 Ethnobotanical insights 17 In search of ‘the herbalist’ 18 Phytotherapy 21 The varieties of phytotherapy 21 Phytotherapy ...

The study aims at demonstrating the efficiency of phytotherapy in macroprolactinoma downsizing. The comparison of phytotherapeutic (PT) efficiency leant on medical records submitted by the patients prior to the PT launch, indicating the diagnosis established based on the outcome of the nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMRI) and/or computed tomography (CT) of the affected site and bringing th...

BACKGROUND The paper presents the results of the use of phytotherapy in a 33-year-old woman who, after finishing the oncological treatment of diffuse astrocytoma, had tumour progression. MATERIAL AND METHODS Phytotherapy was introduced after the tumour had progressed. It consisted of 4 types of herbal medicine which the subject was taking in form of tea once a day at regular intervals. The pa...

BACKGROUND In the latest years, a lot of research studies regarding the usage of active agents from plants in the treatment of tumors have been published, but there is no data about successful usage of herbal remedies in the treatment of glioblastoma in humans. METHODS The phytotherapy involved five types of herbal medicine which the subjects took in the form of tea, each type once a day at r...

Since 2006, thanks to experiments and the inclusion of norms, phytotherapy has become an integral and complementary practice in the Unified Health System, duly increasing the options in Primary Health Care. This study sought to identify the qualitative and quantitative perceptions of 8 managers and 68 health professionals in family health strategy (36 nurses, 18 physicians and 14 dentists) in T...

The future development of phytotherapy in the world medicine requires a new level of investigations aimed at the treatment of malignant formation, AIDS and cardiovascular diseases. With a view to including phytotherapy in the international system of public health, it is very significant to solve the problems regarding a creation of a unified standard for the application of plant-derived resourc...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the integration of phytotherapy in primary health care in Brazil. METHODS Journal articles and theses and dissertations were searched for in the following databases: SciELO, Lilacs, PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science and Theses Portal Capes, between January 1988 and March 2013. We analyzed 53 original studies on actions, programs, acceptance and use of phytotherapy and med...