The General Directorate of Health in the province of Holguín increases the production of Natural and Traditional Medicine, after the lack of industrial pharmaceuticals due to shortages of raw materials and packaging.
The territory, the third most densely populated in Cuba, has a local processing center where Natural and Traditional Medicine are manufactured, where a wide range of products are manufactured to improve the assortments that help improve people’s pathologies, even in the midst of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba.
Maritza Almaguer Cruz, head of the Department of Medicines and Technology of the General Health Directorate, told the ACN that among the products in greatest demand include the anti-catarrhal syrups, frictions for pain and tinctures that have various applications.
There is also a line of “relievers”, a category of homeopathic preparations capable of minimizing the pain, homeopathic preparations capable of minimizing pain from menstrual processes, migraine, bone diseases, asthma and other pathologies, with a great incidence among pathologies, which have a high incidence among vulnerable population groups.
He pointed out that a set of infusions are also manufactured to mitigate viral or stomach infections, which come ready to use and have a great acceptance among patients.
These remedies have proven effectiveness in the control of different diseases and being natural, they do not interact with other drugs and can be used by pregnant women, diabetics, people with severe disabilities, with limitations for the with severe disabilities, with limitations for the use of industrial medicines.
Since 1960, the Natural and Traditional Medicine has had an increasing development in the country and has Acupuncture and its related practices are among its modalities, Phytotherapy, Apitherapy, Homeopathy, Floral Therapy and Ozone Therapy.
At present, the basic table of natural preparations has 153 goods of which 97 are locally produced, 56 on an industrial scale, and 26 have been revitalized, which include strict quality control has been revitalized.
With information from ACN / Translated by Radio Angulo
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