Ancient Cultures & Civilizations

Our next presentation of research exerts the use of herbal medicine in all the ancient cultures.

Man and all other living beings on this planet have been growing and evolving within this both-pervasive biosphere, relying on it for thousands of years for their survival, food, and medicine.

Herbal medicine is the use of healing herbs and other natural substances. 

Although crops and botanical medicines are the cornerstones of the great herbal healing traditions of the world, not all the natural substances used in medicine are plant-based.

Botanical medications account for approximately 85% of traditional pharmacopeias, with minerals accounting for about 10% and those of animal origin for around 5%.

All components of the plant are being used in botanical medicine. 

These include herbs, leaves, flowers, kernels, fruits, seeds, pods, peels, rinds, barks, resins, essences, stems, and roots.

Herbal medicines are preferable to artificial pharmaceutical products because prescription drugs lack nutritional value. Pharmaceutical plants are not used solely by human species in healing; animals also are likely to keep feeding on some plants until they are regenerated when they are sick.

Among humans, herbal medicine has first evolved as an image of the common healing practices of the natural world but also as a heritage of spiritual knowledge and consequently, herbal medicine represented a widespread practice amongst all traditional medical traditions throughout the world, which have defined herbal healing systems or models.

Any herbal medicine scheme must have both a theoretical and a practical aspect to be sustainable.

The theory is required to guide the physician's findings and hypotheses in formulating a plan for diagnosis and therapy.

Functional expertise, either owned or transmitted by one's educators, is needed to pick the correct herbs and medications that function.

The origin of herbal medicine is the collective empirical experience of the human race, which testifies to what plants the humans ate and follow their instance when they considered ill.

A body of understanding and lore evolved in each area of the globe from these origins, enhanced by decades of experiential trial and mistake,

which have become the native folk medicine traditions of the world.

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From these empirical origins, were created the best traditional medical schemes worldwide, in which doctors chose and used the appropriate herbs not only through medical knowledge but also through medicinal concepts and value.

Over the years, a necessary exchange and trade have been made with herbs and other natural medicinal substances to ensure effective remedies that result from traditional medicinal products worldwide.

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Traditional healing wisdom and good old sense informed the common man for hundreds, even thousands, of the best way of health and healing being the botanical products of nature.

All the major religions of the world all have passages from their sacred texts that advocate herbal use for health and healing.