Hekim ve bitkisel ilaç; bilmek ya da bilmemek!

Hekimlerin sıklıkla karşılaştıkları durumlardan birisi, hastaların allopatik tedavi yöntemleri dışındaki uygulamalara yönelmeleridir. Bu uygulamalar arasında en yaygını; bitkilerin toplum ve hastalar tarafından tedavi amacıyla kullanımıdır. Toplumun bu eğilimini maddi kazanca çevirme arzusundaki kişiler, bu tür uygulamaları medya ve reklam aracılığı ile sürekli gündemde tutmaya çabalarlar ve bu dünya genelinde çok yaygın bir durumdur. Bu girşimlerden toplumun etkilenmemesi mümkün değildir. Hekimlerin bitkisel uygulamalar karşısındaki tutumu nasıl olmalıdır? Yazıda bu soruya cevap aranmaktadır

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Bitkiler, tıbbi, Tamamlayıcı tedaviler, Fitoterapi, Kanıta-dayalı tıp, Hekimler

Medical doctor and herbal medicine; to know or not!

One of the frequent issues observed by medical doctors is the inclining of patients to applications other than allopathic therapies. The most common method among these applications is the usage of herbs for the purpose of therapy by patients and public. People who try to provide benefit from this incline of public, try to keep this kind of applications on agenda by the way of media and advertisements and this is a very common issue worldwide. It is impossible to be uninfluenced from these attempts. How should be the attitude of medical doctors for herbal therapeutic applications? The answer for this question is searched in this review.

Keywords:

Plants, Medicinal, Complementary Therapies, Phytotherapy, Evidence-Based Medicine, Physicians,

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