Abstract

Objective: The objective was to analyze peer-reviewed articles, published in journals, dealing with practical experiments that used medicinal plants in aquaponics. Methodology: Initially, from the search terms that associate aquaponics with scientific names of medicinal species, previously chosen for been known to be produced in aquaponic systems, and terms that refers to medicines, been 33 articles, which after an initial analysis, with the reading of the abstracts and, later, reading in full, decreased to 15 articles selected. The main research themes of the works were identified, such as the effect of plants nutritional supplementation; different water flow flows in aquaponic systems that use medicinal species; as well as the types of aquaponic systems used. Results and conclusions: The results showed that aquaponics is on the rise and that all associative conformations of animal and plant species must be analyzed in order to contribute effectively to the ecological and economic sustainability of producers, in addition to the aquaponic medicinal production could be able to add value to the products derived from this production, stimulating their adoption.

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