Scientific evidence of the popular use of medicinal plants in Guatemala
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In Guatemala, as well as in other Central American and Latin American countries, they have had the use of TRADITIONAL MEDICINE for millennia, and as part of it many of us study MEDICINAL PLANTS, because within the MAYAN culture we can observe contemplationism, divinities, priests, witches, midwives, bonesetters, healers, herbalists and many gods whom they worshiped (god of corn, god of rain, god of the sun, god of medicine, etc.) a culture that still and happily prevails in Guatemala, having to date more than 22 ethnic groups with different dialects and 360 different costumes with their rituals and customs.
In order to try to preserve this tradition, rescue it and give it the great value it had two thousand years ago, since 1984 a group of researchers in all fields decided to create a Commission to rescue this TRADITIONAL MEDICINE and that is how THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE USE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS - CONAPLAMED - was born, which is made up of the Government (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Economy), University of San Carlos (Faculties of Pharmacy, Agronomy, Chemical Engineering and Center for Conservation Studies) and private companies.
This is how a multidisciplinary group of researchers has joined the Commission (anthropologists, botanists, agronomists, pharmacologists, toxicologists, phytochemists, industrialists and merchants) in order to validate the use of these native plants. To date, we have studied more than 700 species, for which ethnobotanical surveys have been carried out, followed by their botanical identification or classification, training personnel to carry out the necessary domestication and propagation, and then beginning toxicological, pharmacological and phytochemical studies, and trying to characterize the active principle or principles responsible for the therapeutic activity. The National Commission does not intend to reach the elucidation of the active principles and fall back into the synthesis of products to avoid the problem of the lack of primary health care, where the product would be derived to an expensive and again to chemical products, which is not what was decided in Alma Ata, in 1978, but to reach the production of a pharmaceutical industry based on medicinal plants and a valid and beneficial access for the population.
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