Med. praxi. 2025;22(2):E8-E15 | DOI: 10.36290/med.2025.026

Phytotherapy for general practitioners

Mgr. Lenka Sobková
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The rational utilisation of medicinal herbs is indisputably a contemporary component of medical and pharmaceutical practice.  In the course of deepening our knowledge of modern evidence-based pharmacotherapy, there has been a shift away from phytotherapy over the past several decades. However, this shift has merely redirected our focus back to the field of phytotherapy. It is only through the lens of contemporary research that the full therapeutic potential of numerous medicinal herbs can be fully realised.

Keywords: phytopharmaceuticals, respiratory tract infections, dyspepsia

Received: March 11, 2025; Revised: April 3, 2025; Accepted: April 7, 2025; Published: April 30, 2025  Show citation

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