2021, Volume 14, Issue 6, pp 748 – 755

Phytotherapy in obstetrics – therapeutic indications, limits, and dangers

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* Corresponding Author: Consuela-Mădălina Gheorghe, Department of Marketing and Medical Technology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. E-mail: consuela.gheorghe@umfcd.ro

* Roxana Elena Bohîlțea, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. E-mail: r.bohiltea@yahoo.com

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I am human and nothing that is human is foreign to me (Terence).

The doctor treats, but nature heals (Hippocrates).

Abstract

The wide access to varied, attractive, and aggressively promoted information can induce pregnant women to think that any form of complementary therapy can be a saving solution for a medical problem because these therapies are natural, therefore, harmless. Updated information from literature about indications, benefits, limits, and risks of phytotherapy in pregnancy was presented. Valuable therapeutic resources with proven clinical efficacy (evidence-based medicine) were presented for each trimester of pregnancy, during labor, postpartum, but also during breastfeeding. For some phytotherapeutics, there are scientific studies. There is also a detailed presentation about some possibilities for therapeutic errors, which should be avoided during pregnancy. Positive results of phytotherapy deserve to be known and applied by the obstetrician for the certain benefit of future mothers.

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PMC ID: 8811673
PubMed ID: 35126743
DOI: 10.25122/jml-2021-0353

Article Publishing Date (print): Nov-Dec 2021
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ISSN Printing: 1844-122X
ISSN Online: 1844-3117
Journal Title: Journal of Medicine and Life

Copyright License: Open Access

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