Herbal remedy potential of phytotherapy
Keywords:
COVID-19, medicinal plants, natural therapy, virusAbstract
Currently, many peoples have abandoned the ancestral cultures of the use of medicinal plants to cure diseases, the objective is to remember the importance of using this scientific technique of the use of herbal products to cure different diseases. The logical historical method and the inductive deductive method were used, to achieve an understanding of the importance of rescuing this technique, the result was that this science is currently used by many communities to keep their populations free of diseases, viruses, and suffering. Catastrophic, such as the most recent example of the COVID-19 pandemic. The bibliographic review was used to carry out the research, in addition to the inductive deductive method and the logical historical one, to enhance the need to continue using medicinal plants as a method of curing many diseases.
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