About the Journal

Mission: Medicinae Plantae adopts a strategy of proactive approaches to healthcare, i.e., it serves as a vehicle for knowledge and practices related to health promotion, prevention, and disease management. It is, therefore, a journal focused on Primary Health Care issues.

By positioning itself as an independent source of information on medicines, medicinal plants, and herbal remedies, Medicinae Plantae signals its scope to be an agent for promoting change in the field of public health. To this end, it welcomes discourses considered “unqualified” or “non-academic,” such as those of traditional peoples and communities. Our proposal is to mix knowledge in order to break down dividing lines, functioning as a vehicle of freedom, promoting ruptures and the democratization of scientific and “non-scientific” knowledge and expertise. We are optimistic that this journal will be a refuge and a pocket of resistance to the medicalization processes of society.

Scope: The main areas of research are (but are not limited to): living pharmacies, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomics, pharmacovigilance, ethnopharmacology, phytotherapy, and public health.