Mexico is a paradise for medicinal plants, second worldwide

Mexico has a large floristic richness with 4,500 species. It occupies the second place on the planet within the registry of vegetation for medicinal use, solely after China, mentioned the trainer in Sciences, Balbina Vázquez Benítez, who identified that 90% of the inhabitants makes use of or used some medicinal plant; nonetheless, solely 5% of the species have scientific research.

Additionally, the researcher on the School of Larger Research ( FES ) Zaragoza, of the UNAM, commented that the Mexican Social Safety Institute (IMSS) has documented 3,000 species of medicinal vegetation, even if Mexico has 4,500.

Within the Dialogue program of the Nationwide Institute of Forestry, Agricultural, and Livestock Analysis (Inifap), of the Ministry of Agriculture, it was mentioned that the nation has an infinite wealth of vegetation for medicinal use.

However additional research, identification, and protocols are required for its propagation and manufacturing, along with avoiding over-exploitation and harm attributable to the lack of ecosystems.

Professor Vázquez, additionally steered, that round 250 native and unique species are commercialized, most of which come from the wild, for which it’s essential to have complete institution plans in protocols for his or her propagation and manufacturing to be able to increase the variety.

And the Inifap researcher and specialist in Plant Biotechnology, Salvador Horacio Guzmán Maldonado, warned that when the medicinal use of some vegetation is promoted excessively, there’s a danger of overexploitation and extinction of species.

He said that its makes use of have to be taken care of in order to not hurt the surroundings. Overharvesting can wipe out native vegetation.

The researcher from the UNAM Institute of Biology, Sol Cristians Niizawa, thought-about that the restoration of the standard recognition of medicinal vegetation ought to be revalued and regularized, by way of laws and official paperwork, the opportunity of producing and advertising cures. and natural medicines.

He thought-about that conventional data ought to be rescued. And he recalled that there are official requirements such because the Natural Pharmacopoeia of the United Mexican States, which has extra monographs of vegetation from different components of the world, however that are used right here.

Dr. Abel Cruz, from Bionatura, mentioned that Mexican herbalism is a paradise, with a elementary stock. He argued that there’s a mistaken consumption of medicinal vegetation, so studying about their use ought to be promoted.

He thought-about important the financing of scientific analysis for the identification and restoration, use, and results of medicinal vegetation. “This opens up the probabilities to tell the inhabitants about its advantages.”

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