KEY WORDS: principal active (principi actiu)
Nowadays we are in a civilitzacion where medicines are really important to live well and to promise the good progress of our species. The work includes information about the beginning of medicine and how it has developed from the past to the present.
The objectives of this research project was to learn if the medicinal plants have a real curative use and in this case, what medicine carry in the composition the same principal active and if both have the same use.
This research project collected and presented, in a organized way, the different type species of plants used from the citizen of Castellóe d'Empúries, the most popular way to preparing the medicine plants, which parts they used and finally for which diseases they used utilize.
