Journal of Regional Section of Serbian Medical Association in Zajecar
Year 2003     Volumen 28     Number 3-4
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UDK 615.32:582(091) ISSN 0350-2899, 28(2003) 3-4 p.101-109
 
History of medicine and health culture

Medicinal plants and the use in pharmacotherapy - a historical overview

Parojčić Dušanka, Stupar Dragan
Institut za farmaceutsku tehnologiju i kozmetologiju, Farmaceutski fakultet, Univerziteta u Beogradu

  
     
  Summary:
The use of medicinal plants as food and remedies is old as the mankind. Until the emergence of the iatrochemistry remedies were made mostly from herbs and spices. People enormously believed in medicinal power obtained from the nature so many plants became the symbols of God and Goddess of healing and Medicine. Some of those herbal drugs proved to be useful and found their way into the contemporary pharmacotherapy.
Pharmaceutical companies and their laboratories now do most of their work involved in searching for new active substances from the herbs, used for centuries in traditional and ethno pharmacy.
Key words: history, medicinal plants, herbal drugs, pharmacotherapy		  
  Correspodence to:
Dušanka Parojčić
Farmaceutski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu
450 Vojvode Stepe, 11000 Beograd
Serbia and Montenegro
e-mail: parojcic@pharmacy.bg.ac.yu		  
     
  Received: 14. V 2003.
Accepted: 4. VI 2003.		  
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