Plantas medicinales de interés en farmacia comunitariade la validación farmacológica al DNA-barcoding

  1. Sanchez Gomez-Serranillos, Marta
Supervised by:
  1. Rafael Lozano Fernández Director
  2. Elena María González Burgos Director
  3. Irene Iglesias Peinado Director

Defence university: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 26 February 2021

Committee:
  1. Juana Benedí González Chair
  2. Paloma Bermejo-Bescós Secretary
  3. María Isabel Calvo Martínez Committee member
  4. Mercedes González Gomis Committee member
  5. Fernando de Jesús Franco Committee member
Department:
  1. Química en Ciencias Farmacéuticas

Type: Thesis

Abstract

Over the years, numerous events have demonstrated that medicinal plants play an essential role in human health as a molecular source of therapeutic potential and a source to develop new medicines. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that herbal medicine is an important and often underestimated part of patient care. Medicinal plants were declared an "inexhaustible source of new drugs" in 1978 by the WHO. Currently, millions of people in the world consume medicinal plants for therapeutic purposes; because of this, the World Health Organization has designed the so-called Strategy 2014/2023, which aims to strengthen the role of traditional medicine, highlighting the importance of promoting and including the use of medicinal plants in the health systems of member countries...