Introduction:

The natural and traditional medicine is an innocuous, economic therapeutic alternative of easy application; however, the little use of its modalities still persists.

Objective:

To describe the use of natural and traditional medicine by health professionals in the primary care level.

Methods:

An observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out from January to March, 2022, that included the 167 doctors and male nurses that worked in the 42 family doctor offices belonging to Ernesto Guevara de la Serna Teaching Polyclinic of Niquero municipality in Granma. Among the analyzed variables were the following: professional profile of the health basic team, frequency of natural and traditional medicine use, most used modalities, prescription according to affections and strengths to guarantee the practice of this treatment.

Results:

There was a prevalence of residents in comprehensive general medicine (34.8 %), the frequent use of the treatment (43.1 %), as well as fitotherapy (86.8 %) and apitherapy (73.6 %) as most used modalities; also, most of the prescriptions were for the patients with osteomioarticular and cardiovascular diseases (55.7 and 37.1 %, respectively).

Conclusions:

The use of natural and traditional medicine in primary health care in Niquero municipality provided the health professionals with the necessary information to make future plans and trace strategies related to the treatment variants.

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