Manual of medicinal plants for the teaching

The use of medicinal plants centers the attention of the world scientific community who highlights its importance in the current and future sanitary system, it is so the Fitoterapia, as branch of the busy science of studying the use of the plants with medicinal ends, it has also charged a momentous importance. The objective of this investigation is to design a Manual of medicinal plants that can be used as teaching material, for the investigation and for the use of prepared medicinal starting from the same ones. Theoretical, empiric methods were used and of the descriptive statistic when validating the manual. The investigation was carried out in two stages: one of design and elaboration of the manual, and another validation stage for experts. A manual was elaborated formed basically by four fundamental parts (Introduction, Generalities, Monographs of the medicinal plants and Bibliographical References), the included medicinal plants were the result of studies etnobotánicos carried out in the whole area of the Council Popular Horseshoe whose information is supplemented with the knowledge of the residents and with data published in the scientific literature specialized in the topic. A manual of medicinal plants was developed that is useful in the process of teaching learning, for the investigation and its use with therapeutic ends, it was very appropriate according to the approach of the experts that you/they evaluated it. Keywords: You plant medicinal; teaching manual