WHAT IS PHYTOTHERAPY?

Phytotherapy is a combination of the Greek word “phyto” meaning “plant” and “therapy” meaning “treatment” and is a natural alternative to “treatment with artificial-chemical drugs” which is a part of today’s artificial life.

Phytotherapy is actually the root of medicine itself… Until the last century, it is a tool used to cure diseases rather than the strategy of suppressing complaints/symptoms, i.e. “sweeping the dirt under the carpet” of modern medicine, which has turned chemical compounds found in nature into “rent-seekers” by “patenting” them.

In phytotherapy, there is no tampering with the body’s chemicals, as in modern medicine, because when the human body, with its weak faculties and superior and complex creation, is tampered with, the balance is disturbed, perhaps hundreds of functions are disrupted while the function that is tried to be corrected is restored. Phytotherapy, on the other hand, is a naive touch that increases the functions that need to be increased and decreases the functions that need to be decreased without disturbing the balance with the most appropriate “plant”, just like a piece of a puzzle to the organism called human, which is “created in balance”.

1. The material of phytotherapy is plants. While 300000 plant species are known on earth, there are between 25000-75000 medicinal plants. Some of these are used for food, some for cosmetic purposes and some as medicines. In Turkey, 500 medicinal plants are used, 350 are collected from nature, 30 are cultivated and 120 are imported.

   Medicinal plants are pharmaceuticalized in different ways and used for health purposes.

   Medicinal Teas: The most widely used of these are medicinal teas. Medicinal teas are
   Hot brew (infusion)
   Boiling (decoction)
   Soaking in water at room temperature (maceration)
   Tinctures These are liquid preparations obtained by extracting the essence of the plant kept in a solvent solution in a dark environment.

Syrups, poultices, honey mixes, pastes: Any formula made easy to drink with honey or other natural sweeteners.
Macerates/Medicinal Oils: They are obtained by soaking certain parts of plants in fixed oils at a certain time and temperature. St. John’s wort oil and potent pomegranate oil are examples.
Fixed Oils: Generally obtained by cold pressing of seeds and shells. They are rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins. Apricot kernel oil and black cumin oil are examples.
Essential Oils: These are oils obtained by collecting the extracts of some plants by means of water vapor. They volatilize immediately when applied and have a rapid effect. They are obtained by distillation, pressing or anfloranj (extraction). The water remaining after the oil is removed is called “hydrosol”. Treatments using oils are called “aromatherapy” as a subheading of phytotherapy.
Solid extracts: These are solid preparations obtained by extracting the plant extracts with a solvent solution and then removing the solvent solution. They are encapsulated and presented to the patient.

Phytotherapy is actively practiced in our practice and phytotherapy products in all forms are recommended to our patients.

Does it have a place in the scientific literature?

There are more than 2000 articles about a single black cumin seed on the scientific literature search site PubMed. Hundreds of thousands of articles have been published about herbal treatments in the last century and are applied in a completely scientific framework.

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