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- Title
FITOTERÁPICOS SOBRE A FUNÇÃO HEPÁTICA PRESENTES NO MEMENTO FITOTERÁPICO: FARMACOPEIA BRASILEIRA.
- Authors
da Silva Barbosa, Anne Karynne; Coppi Navarro, Antonio
- Abstract
Introduction: the use of herbal medicines in Brazil has been growing as a therapeutic alternative, the spread of phytotherapeutic use is due to the low cost, when compared to synthetic medicines, the Phytotherapeutic Memento - Brazilian Pharmacopoeia, presents two phytotherapics that help the hepatic functioning, being Cynara scolymus L. and Ginkgo Biloba L. Thus, the present study is indispensable to verify if the ANVISA recommendations contained in the Phytotherapeutic Memento - Brazilian Pharmacopoeia are known by the Nutrition Professionals. Objective: to verify the knowledge of newly formed nutritionists about the herbal products related to liver function. Materials and Methods: the study was carried out through a form containing 09 questionnaires on herbal medicines that are related to the function of the liver with 30 nutritionists who do post-graduation Lato Sensu in Phytotherapy, with a minimum age of 22 and a maximum of 47, with a mean of 27.80 ± 5.53 with total body weight in kg, with a minimum of 42 and a maximum of 84.9, with a mean of 59.45 ± 9.28, with height in meters with a minimum of 1.52 and maximum of 1.72, with an average of 1.62 ± 0.06. Result: according to the answers indicated in each questionnaire, we noticed that most of the nutritionists who study lato sensu in phytotherapy have little knowledge about phytotherapics and their functions, about the popular name and the scientific name, as well as the dose to be prescribed. Discussion: The data in the table may represent the need to search for knowledge about herbal medicines for specific professional activities and / or the deficiency in undergraduate teaching on herbal medicines. Conclusion: it is concluded that the nutritionists who are doing lato sensu specialization in phytotherapy still do not know the phytotherapics about the liver function present in Phototerapic Memory.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ARTICHOKES; HERBAL medicine; GINKGO; MAXIMA &; minima; PHYTOTHERAPY; BODY weight
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Obesidade, Nutrição e Emagrecimento, 2019, Vol 13, Issue 79, p357
- ISSN
1981-9919
- Publication type
Article