Use of herbal medicines in women's health

• Autor(a) principal: Sá, Claudia Conforto de
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Charles Lima, Costa, Vanessa Rosa de Oliveira Teixeira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: REVISA : Revista de Divulgação Científica Sena Aires (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rdcsa.emnuvens.com.br/revista/article/view/140
• topic: Fitoterapia; Saúde da Mulher; Terapias complementares; Climatério; Plantas medicinais; Phytotherapy; Women's Health; Complementary therapies; Climacteric; Medicinal plants

Objecive: list the benefits of the use of herbal medicines in women's health based on the literature. Method: integrative literature review. Guide question: What are the main herbal medicines used in women's health and their benefits according to the literature? The access and selection of articles occurred between January and February 2023. For the search of the articles, information found in the databases: MedLine, SciELO, BDENF and LILACS were included, the complete articles published in full, in Portuguese and English, within the period of 10 years (2012 to 2022), being excluded articles that did not answer the guide question. Results: six articles were found that presented the best known medicinal plants linked to the treatment of the endocrine and reproductive systems in the climacteric, which were: Glycine max, Angelica sinensis, Vitex agnus castus, Uncaria tomentosa, Lepidium meyenii, Panax ginseng. Conclusion: the phytoestrogens presented in the study demonstrate efficacy to combat climacteric symptoms, being more common isoflavones, but other plants also have important benefits to maintain women's health with regard to the genital tract.