Increasingly, modern biomedicine despite its dazzling progress reveals its inability to meet the basic needs of the global population in health related issues.
The environmental damage , with the ensuing energy and social crisis as its background, have led health authorities in different countries to consider the opportunity to reassess traditional medicine and pharmacopoeia to incorporate their appropriate elements in the primary health care systems of the populations under their concern.
To validate scientifically the traditional uses of medicinal plants for primary health care.
To be the reference interdisciplinary program in the detection, validation and diffusion of the uses of medicinal plants that impact in public health.