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One of the problems is the constant use of alternative medicines in urban areas, however the Andean man makes the use of medicinal plants as an alternative healing remedy for disease varieties that occurs day by day, the work has the purpose of knowing the use and benefits and cultural importance within human health, carried in the districts of Bagua, El Parco, Copallín and La Peca in the province of Bagua during the months January to June of the year 2019. Methodology; It has been carried out, taking into account the statistical descriptive method of SPSS Statistic software, it allows us to determine the validity and the level of reliability within them we have the Alpha de Cronbach, Teresen & Ordaz, (2014), considering the surveys applied to the population of the study area to the use of medicinal plants, morphological characteristics of the leaves, stems, flowers, fruits, habitat, taxonomic classifications, labeling each species with its common name, place, date. From the statistical results, the weighted average is estimated to be the maximum is 3.60 and a minimum is 1.00, which corresponds to the question, what part of the plant is used? In the standard deviation a maximum value of 1,320 is determined and the minimum is 0.00 corresponding to the question, do you know any plants that cure any disease? It means that all respondents know the plants that cure diseases. The coefficient of variability has a value of 59.78% and the lower value is 0.00%. The question is: do you know any plant that cures any disease? Being less than 7% is considered accurate, however between the values 25.78 and 59.78% because they are greater than 20%, it is considered to be inaccurate and used only for descriptive purposes. Conclusions, in the supply of medicinal plants to the sick; 94% of people interviewed use the plant as a drink, 2% as food and the remaining 4% use it as external use. Villagers use it for febrile treatments accompanied by other plants.