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Descriptor English: Phytotherapeutic Drugs
Descriptor Spanish: Medicamento Fitoterápico
Descriptor medicamentos fitoterápicos
Entry term(s) fármacos fitoterapéuticos
Scope note: Son los obtenidos por un proceso tecnológico adecuado en el que se utilizan sólo vegetales como materia prima, y que tienen finalidad profiláctica, curativa, paliativa o diagnóstica. Se caracterizan por el conocimiento de la eficacia y los riesgos de su uso, así como la reproducibilidad y consistencia de su calidad. No se consideran medicamentos fitoterápicos los que incluyen en su composición sustancias activas aisladas de otras fuentes, o sus asociaciones con extractos de plantas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Medicamento Fitoterápico
Descriptor French: Médicaments Phytothérapeutiques
Entry term(s): Phytotherapic Drugs
Tree number(s): MT3.465.265.516
VS2.002.001.005
Scope note: Drugs obtained using exclusively active vegetable raw materials. Their efficacy and risks, as well as the reproducibility and constancy of their quality are known. Their efficacy and safety are validated through ethnopharmacological surveys, techno-scientific documentation in publications or phase 3 clinical trials. (RDC nº 48/04 - Anvisa)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
DeCS ID: 51441
Unique ID: DDCS051441
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Phytotherapeutic Drugs - Preferred
Concept UI FD00061636
Scope note Drugs obtained using exclusively active vegetable raw materials. Their efficacy and risks, as well as the reproducibility and constancy of their quality are known. Their efficacy and safety are validated through ethnopharmacological surveys, techno-scientific documentation in publications or phase 3 clinical trials. (RDC nº 48/04 - Anvisa)
Preferred term Phytotherapeutic Drugs
Entry term(s) Phytotherapic Drugs



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