Lik Sprava. 1999 Apr-May; (3): 147-50.

[The current views on the role and importance of phytotherapy in the structure of scientific medicine]

Shchulipenko IM.

Phytotherapy, in spite of a long-continued employment in empirical and scientific medicine, does not have distinct scientific doctrine, conceptual strategies and tactics of use in practical treatment. Ways and means of phytotherapy are more often than not regarded as adjuncts to pharmacotherapy. In connection with formation during recent decades of new concepts of pathogenetic essence of pathological processes as of combined disturbances in biochemical reactions,--at the membrane and cell level in the first place, the role and value of phytotherapy as an independent method and means of metabolic therapy is considered in a new perspective.