Medicinal Plants, Precautions for Their Use in the Elderly

Objective: To relate physiologic changes and presence of illnesses in older adults, with the risk of appearance of adverse reactions and pharmacological interactions as consequence of the use of medicinal plants. Methods: To carry out a search in the last 5 years and to present a general vision about what have been published related to the use of medicinal plants with risk of appearance of adverse reactions and interactions in older adults. Conclusions: Technological prevision based on the search of articles in the Virtual Library in Health (BVS) and using the words key “medicinal plants”, “older adult”, “pharmacokinetics”, “adverse reactions”, “elderly”, “pharmacological interactions”, and the association among them.