Periodico 26

In the absence of several conventional drugs and the need to raise awareness among the population about the benefits of Natural and Traditional Medicine (NTM), this province works to keep the main lines of production covered.

The application of techniques and treatment to patients with Natural and Traditional Medicine is strengthened in the southern municipality of "Amancio," which "is not a solution to poverty, but an alternative of wealth," as the Army General Raúl Castro expressed.

Appearing in the logo of pharmaceutical company and dyes Bayer that popularized its name in the early twentieth century, aspirin, aseptic in its whiteness and enclosed in the blister, remains the archetype of modern medicine. The sellers of the Cairo spice market know this, but they continue to sell the willow bark that was already on the papyri of Egyptian pharaonic pharmacology as an effective remedy against pain. In fact, the willow contains high levels of salicylic acid, the active component that would later be used in the most famous medicine of modern medical care.

A Scientific Workshop of Natural and Traditional Medicine was held recently in the eastern Cuban province of Las Tunas.