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Medicinal Herbs: Its Therapeutic Use in Obstetrics and Gynaecology

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Abstract

The plants have been used for thousands of years for therapeutic purposes. Hippocrates in the fifth century BC, already related the mood with food and plants [1]. The use of medicinal herbs flourished in Europe in the seventeenth century and the emigration of European people to America, moved to this continent the habit of using medicinal herbs [2]. In 1920 pharmacy drugs replaced herbal therapies in the USA, because the former had more lasting pharmacological effects and greater profitability.

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Orbe, I. et al. (2020). Medicinal Herbs: Its Therapeutic Use in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. In: Bizzarri, M. (eds) Approaching Complex Diseases. Human Perspectives in Health Sciences and Technology, vol 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32857-3_18

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