espanolMuchas de las practicas de la medicina cientifica tienen un reflejo en la medicina popular que le antecede; es necesario, por tanto, detectar aquellas practicas populares que tienen una base cientifica (se pueden explicar y demostrar su fundamento a traves de estudios cientificos) y aquellas que no tienen base alguna. No existen estudios en la poblacion de Meliana (Valencia) sobre Medicina Popular. Los objetivos de este trabajo son conocer, catalogar y cuantificar los remedios populares de la poblacion de Meliana, trasmitidos de generacion en generacion; senalar el origen, fuente, tiempo y lugar de estos remedios populares, y establecer la tipologia de los sistemas medicos utilizados. EnglishMany of the practices of scientific medicine have a mirror image of those used in popular medicine, which came before. There is a need to distinguish between those popular practices which have a scientific foundation (i.e. they could be explained and demonstrated through scientific studies) from those practices without. There are no studies in the city of Meliana (Valencia) on popular medicine. The present work seeks to catalogue and to quantify the popular remedies found in the city of Meliana, passed down by word of mouth generation after generation, indicating the origin, source, time and place of these popular remedies, and to establish the typology of the medical systems utilized at that time.