USE OF PHYTOTHERAPY IN VETERINARY GASTROENTEROLOGY AND DERMATOLOGY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/USO DA FITOTERAPIA NA GASTROENTEROLOGIA E DERMATOLOGIA VETERINARIA: UMA REVISAO SISTEMATICA DE LITERATURA/USO DE LA FITOTERAPIA EN GASTROENTEROLOGIA Y DERMATOLOGIA VETERINARIA: UNA REVISION SISTEMATICA DE LA LITERATURA

The impact of the use of herbal medicines and the increase in the number of scientific articles in the area of veterinary medicine is growing, and there is a need to evaluate and condense recent knowledge regarding the use of medicinal plants in veterinary clinics. So, a systematic literature review was carried out with the theme "use of herbal medicine in veterinary gastroenterology and dermatology" based on the literature available between 2018 to 2023 in the PUBMED, SCIELO, and Periodicos Capes databases by retrieving papers written in Portuguese, English and Spanish, accessed electronically. The most common diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) and skin identified in the review were ulcerative lesions and those caused by infectious pathogens. The herbal medicines used to treat those diseases are based on plants such as copaiba, turmeric, neem, oregano, garlic, calendula, grapes, licorice, among others, whose chemical components are mostly essential oils and phenolic compounds, which present antimicrobial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory activities. The present systematic review showed that the use of phytotherapy was effective when carried out with plants producing essential oils and/or phenolic compounds, to be used in different pathologies related to the GIT and skin, in veterinary medicine. Keywords: Phytotherapy; medicinal plants; veterinary; alternative medicine. Plantas medicinais tem sido usadas para o tratamento de diversas afeccoes humanas e veterinarias. Com o objetivo de se compreender a abrangencia do uso de medicamentos fitoterapicos em doencas veterinarias relacionadas ao trato gastrointestinal (TGI) e a pele, foi feita uma revisao sistematica da literatura disponivel entre os anos de 2018 e 2023, de artigos escritos nas linguas portuguesa, inglesa e espanhola disponiveis nas bases de dado PUBMED, SCIELO e Periodicos Capes. As doencas mais comuns ao TGI e a pele, identificadas na revisao, sao as lesoes ulcerativas e as causadas por agentes biologicos. Os fitoterapicos utilizados para o tratamento das doencas tem como base diversas especies vegetais, como copaiba, curcuma, neem, oregano, alho, calendula, uva, alcacuz, entre outras, cujos componentes quimicos sao oleos essenciais e compostos fenolicos, em sua maioria, que apresentam atividades antimicrobianas, antioxidantes, cicatrizantes e anti- inflamatorias. Palavras-chave: Fitoterapia; plantas medicinais; veterinaria; medicina alternativa. Las plantas medicinales se han utiliz