Aromatic & medicinal plants

A medicinal plant is a plant which one of its organs, for example the leave or the bark possesses healing virtues, and sometimes toxic according to its dosage.

Plants that are registered on the pharmacopoeia are considered as medicines.

Their sale is exclusively reserved for the pharmacists and for the chemists, With the exception of some of them who are freely sold by dispensation and correspond often to the aromatic plants used in the culinary preparations.

The history of the aromatic and medicinal plants " A.M.P " is associated with civilizations’ evolution . In all world’s parts, the history of peoples shows that these plants have always occupied an important place in medicine, in the composition of flavors and culinary preparations.

Being in the Mediterranean Basin with big climatic variations from north to south, Tunisia presents a ground of preference for the development of these cultures.