ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers Natural and Traditional Medicine, which includes the treatment with ethnomedicinal plants, as the most natural, safe and effective medicine. WHO, therefore, supports Member States in promoting the use of Traditional Medicines in Primary Health Care (PHC), on the basis of ensuring the safety and quality of the medicine, while recommending professionals and consumers to use ethnomedicinal plants properly because they could be effective as first-line treatment and prevention for conditions such as colds, diarrhea, stomach pains, mild fevers, minor wounds, metabolic and other diseases (Del Toro Garcia and Trapero Quintana 2007).
