Introduction

Medicinal plants enjoy great acceptance among the Colombian population, most of the population at some point has used a medicinal plant to treat some type of pathology. Colombia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, it has a high variety of plants with therapeutic properties.

Aim

To evaluate the perception of the Colombian population about the use of medicinal plants, this analysis was carried out through Natural Processing Analysis using Python.

Results

In general terms, more than 90% of the Colombian population has used medicinal plants in the treatment of some pathology, in addition, 45% consider the use of medicinal plants as safe and 6% consider them to be very dangerous. One of the most important findings is that more than 45% of the population has changed traditional medicine for medicinal plants, which can generate loss of therapeutic adherence, generating serious complications in the health of the individual.