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Introduction: Natural and Traditional Medicine allows professionals to broaden the scientific scope in an integrative way, showing their performance in the health areas of Pinar del Río. Objective: to identify the elements that limits the practice of therapeutic modalities of Natural and Traditional Medicine at primary health care in Pinar del Río municipality. Methods: a descriptive observational study was conducted between May 2016 and July 2017 in the four polyclinics of the municipality of Pinar del Río. The study target group included the doctors and professors of the Basic Work Team (U=1 006). The collection of sample was conducted through cases by authority criteria, and within these by simple random cases, sample (n=234). Results: Comprehensive Medicine Specialists with more than five years of experience predominated, 30.3 % do not applied Natural and Traditional Medicine, 67.9 % considered it useful, 58.8% recognized its effectiveness, phytotherapy prevailed (69.6 %). Conclusion: the application of Natural and Traditional Medicine still demands a priority by the professionals in the primary health care as an alternative to its application, a not minor part expresses not to make use of it, everything indicates that it is an element not to be left to the spontaneity taking care of the scientific and ethical aspects of its necessary prescription as therapeutic modalities.

Introducción: los métodos empleados por la Medicina Natural y Tradicional son terapéuticos, económicos e inocuos. La lumbalgia es una afección que padecen los adultos mayores en algún momento de la vida. Objetivo: determinar la efectividad de la medicina tradicional en afecciones lumbosacras en el adulto mayor, del Policlínico Universitario Pedro Borrás Astorga, en el período de septiembre de 2016 a junio de 2017. Métodos: se realizó una investigación observacional, analítica, de casos y controles, con un universo de 562 adultos mayores que asistieron a consulta de medicina tradicional con dolor lumbosacro, se seleccionó una muestra aleatoria simple de 200 pacientes, separados en dos grupos, de 100 cada uno, el de casos que recibió tratamiento con medicina tradicional y el grupo de controles tratado con medicina convencional; se utilizaron métodos teóricos, empíricos la revisión de la historia clínica, la escala de Oswestry e índice Womac, se aplicaron técnicas estadísticas (porciento y Chi cuadrado). Resultados: predominaron en ambos grupos las edades entre 60-64 años, el sexo femenino, la ocupación de ama de casa en las féminas y trabajador agrícola en los hombres, la evolución de los síntomas utilizando la medicina tradicional resultó satisfactoria en un 95 %, el 36% utilizó de 3 a 6 sesiones con ventosas, el 52% de 7 a 10 sesiones con ventosas, el 88% recibió tratamiento con digitopuntura y un 48% presentó gastritis como reacción adversa ante el tratamiento convencional. Conclusiones: la medicina tradicional resultó ser un tratamiento efectivo para los adultos mayores aquejados de afecciones lumbosacras.

Introduction: oligoasthenozoospermia is a common cause of male infertility. The kidney according to Chinese Traditional Medicine is one of the most affected organs associated with this health condition. Objective: to describe the traditional syndromes associated with male infertility, searching for more effective individualized treatments. Method: an observational and descriptive study was carried out in the Natural and Traditional Medicine Service at Abel Santamaría Cuadrado General Teaching Hospital in Pinar del Río during 2016; 86 infertile patients who met the inclusion criteria were included in the study. The sample was distinguished according to: adjustment of the work-rest regime, inadequate diet, toxic habits, intemperate sexual activity, symptoms and traditional signs, characteristics of tongue and pulse, and syndromes of Zang-Fu organs, according to four diagnostic methods. Results: 61,6 % of the patients manifested alterations of the work-rest regime, 54,6 % inadequate food intake with increase of fatty foods, and 41 % ingestion of alcoholic beverages; 80,2 % showed lassitude and pain in the lumbar region and knees predominantly, pale tongue with fine-white coating (27,5 %) and the deep and filiform pulse (34 %). The prevailing syndromes according to Zang Fu organs were: Kidney Yang deficiency (34,9 %), Kidney Jing deficiency (29,1 %) and Kidney Yin deficiency (24,4 %). Conclusions: kidney deficiency syndromes predominated in infertile patients. The differentiation of the syndromes in these patients is of great importance for the adequate alternative of traditional treatment and its effectiveness.