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Item “Uso de plantas medicinales en mujeres gestantes y lactantes en el centro de salud materno infantil simón bolívar n°2 de la ciudad de Ambato”(Enfermería, 2018-10-01) Acosta Molina, Dayana Isabel; Valero Cedeño, Nereida Josefina, Dra.The present investigation is of descriptive type, prospective and transversal, which allowed the study of herbal medicine and its use in pregnant and lactating women, in order to determine the relationship between medicinal plants and their beliefs and traditions. The study was carried out in the Simón Bolívar Maternal and Child Health Center No. 2, in the area of outpatient consultation, emergency, delivery room and in the vaccination room in the period April-July 2018, with an assessment instrument that included 10 questions in the header to determine the sociodemographic characteristics, followed by 53 items with the most used plants and their frequency and 30 items of possible uses, the survey was conducted to 238 women (168 pregnant women and 70 infants). The results showed that 77% of the population has used medicinal plants for different causes, being the most common in pregnant women to eliminate or diminish the characteristic symptoms of the first trimester of pregnancy and to accelerate the labor of childbirth; Instead, the infants use them to heal the wounds produced by childbirth and for a greater production of breast milk: In the same way, the information obtained about the use of medicinal plants in pregnant women and infants in said population was transmitted mainly by the mother and grandmother