TY - SER TI - Farmacognosia: un campo emergente de conocimiento SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa; Bibliografía: p. 71 N2 - A pleasant and brief review of the history of <> is carried out. Each people and each historical moment has resorted to substances found in nature to alleviate pain and cure disease. The authors propose an approach of modern pharmacology to that traditional discipline, called pharmacognosy, so that the benefits of both knowledge can be combined. Being open to other alternatives that for centuries have been the basis of the treatment of some diseases can only result in well-being for patients ER -