Beatriz Macías-Peacok, Liliana Pérez-Jackson, Maykel Fernando Suárez-Crespo, César Oscar Fong-Domínguez, Eliazar Pupo-Perera
BACKGROUND: Plants have been used by humans since the ancient times, for eating, for clothing and for curing illnesses. The noxious effects of many medicinal plants are still ignored, mainly during pregnancy. OBJECTIVE: To identify the use of medicinal plants (MP) in pregnant women in primary care medicine. METHODS: A descriptive, prospective study was carried out in 300 pregnant women from two primary care clinics. They were interviewed to identify the use of MP, the age of the pregnancy which MP were more used with and the medical indication for its use...
May 2009: Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social