Traditional medicine is a cultural heritage. Herbs are the basic remedy in Bulgarian traditional medicine, the empirical knowledge of medicinal plants being passed down from generation to generation primarily by word of mouth. Most of the plants are used in Bulgarian traditional medicine (BTM) on the grounds of the experience gained over the centuries. As for the treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular system, the data contained in some Bulgarian handwritten remedy books published in the

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... e 19 th and early 20 th century show that our people empirically used medicinal plants the pharmacological activity of which is proven today through experimental and clinical studies. Thus far, science has not discovered the mechanism of pharmacological action of a lot of the herbs that people used. The researches in this direction are still going on. Bulgarian herbal therapy makes its contribution to world science.