EQUIBIOTICS: A NEW TYPE OF PHYT MEDICINE TO INDUCE THE BALANCE OF THE MICROBIOTA AND AVOID DYSBIOSIS

Abstract

Studies that address the role played by microorganisms in maintaining the health of human beings have shown, in the last years, that there is a permanent relationship of beneficial functional coexistence between the cells of certain systems of the human body and the microorganisms of the environmental setting. The evidence on the signal interactions of the microbiota ecosystems in the skin, the gastrointestinal track, and respiratory or genitourinary systems, has given way to explain the vital relationship that exists between the Human Genome and the Human Microbiome, the set of genes of microorganisms that are signally permanently in the body of every healthy individual. The loss of functional balance between these systems gives rise to the phenomenon called dysbiosis, which explains the functional alterations manifest as infectious, inflammations, immunological and metabolic disorders of the human body. The studies reported describe the products made with mixtures of medicinal plant extracts that have a great synergistic activity inhibiting proliferation of pathogenic strains and, at the same time, promoting the increase and diversity of beneficial strains present in the microbiota of each person. These plant extracts known and used for centuries by traditional herbal medicines have an important role in preserving and strengthening the balance of the microbiota ecosystems, particularly those of the digestive tract system where they are applied. The work carried out describes the usefulness of a product formulated from complete extracts of Psidium guajava leaves and Coptis chinensis roots in the treatment of gastric, and intestinal dysfunctions, creating a new category of phytodrugs named Equibiotics.