Phytotherapy: Present State of the Issue

Abstract

Phytotherapy is one of the oldest treatment methods. Studies and conclusions of the World Health Organization (WHO) Expert evidence of the trend towards greater demand for alternative treatments, including herbal medicine. The article presents such actual data on the issue under review as herbal preparations use at the present stage, frequency of and reasons for the use of medicinal plants in the world pediatric practice. There is a review of the WHO documents on quality assessment, harvesting, preparation and use of vegetable raw materials in the article. It also highlights the key provisions of the WHO strategy for ethnoscience in 2014–2023. There also is data on the properties of one of the plant-based drugs components and results of clinical trials of its effectiveness in children.

Keywords

• phytotherapy
• children
• tonsillitis
• frequently ill children