Long humans has given back-remedies nature offers, disavowing which often medicine herbal is much more effective, cheap and fewer side effects than traditional medicine.
Already ancient Egypt known properties some plants. This know by finding different papyri dating 1300 BC. Is also said that workers working in building large pyramids were given garlic to strengthen and keep disease free.
In papyrus Edwin Smith-considered oldest text retrieved which in medicine referred-encountered by dawn herbal medicine, over 400 feedstocks treating various diseases. A list similar was elaborated by Hippocrates and carried by name “Corpus Hippocraticum.” Aristotle and Teofasto of erasi were other Greeks celebrated who spoke out this matter.
Over the centuries and development technology and medicine, shelved herbs for produce medicines synthetic and chemical. However some current medications and commonly used have as component main assets found in plants. This applies of quinine extracted from crust chinchona, aspirin willow bark and digoxin foxglove.