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The Practice Of Traditional Herbal Medicine
The phrase, “this does not save even the Chinese doctor” is the result of success in the practice of traditional herbal medicine made by Dr. Cham Bom Bian of the city of Cardenas, Matanzas province, in the nineteenth century.
Herbal medicine or herbal medicine is a therapeutic practice that uses different plant preparations to treat diseases. It is considered one of the first systems of healing and is valid until today.
In Egypt, from the years 1300 BC, and plants were grown for medicinal purposes as collected the papyri of the time. For the builders of temples and pyramids were given garlic to keep them healthy. Some papyrus, like Smith, accounting for more than 400 raw materials, both animal and vegetable, for the treatment of disease.
In Babylon the king Mardukapaolidine II (772-710 BC) built a garden for the cultivation of medicinal plants which became famous.
In Greece figures as Aristotle and Hippocrates described the importance of herbal medicine. The latter, in his Hippocratic Corpus, a disease related to each plant-based remedy. Also referred Erasios Teofasto of botanical studies and the use of many plants.
During the Middle Ages, a hamlet Dioscorides, in his Treatise on Materia Medica, listed over 500 plant-based drugs and beneficial use of many of them.