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- ItemPomada de Orégano (Origanum vulgare) como tratamiento alternativo para el Pie de Atleta. Quito/2021(ISTMAS, 2022-01-10) Jiménez Pozo, Adriana Alexandra; Contero Bedoya, Fausto FernandoThe use of plants since time immemorial has been of extreme importance for human beings, being used for food, medicine and housing construction, among other utilities. Plants for medicinal use, allow to treat multiple diseases, the use of phytotherapeutic products is taking more and more strength, every day there are more consumers who are looking for natural alternatives, both for the prevention and for the treatment of different diseases, which also do not have side effects, which do not have the toxicity of allopathic drugs and that their cost is more convenient. Oregano (Origanum vulgare) is a plant that has been proposed to have healing properties against fungi; thinking about the usefulness of a natural product, which due to its innocuous characteristics may allow the treatment of an infectious disease of this type, it was decided to carry out a quasi-experimental and prospective study with the aim of evaluating the antifungal activity of the oregano ointment, for this a detailed investigation of the general characteristics of this plant was previously carried out, establishing its benefits and therapeutic properties, then an ointment was formulated that was applied daily, twice a day, for fifteen days, to five patients of different ages and sexes, after this time the patients were evaluated, verifying that the ointment does have antifungal activity in athlete's foot; it was observed that most patients showed significant improvement at the end of treatment.