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FIRST WRITTEN TEXTS ON MEDICINAL PLANTS































knowledge about medicinal plants, before the birth of writing, were made orally. It is known that the first written text on the use of medicinal plants is about 4000 years old and appears on a clay tablet in the culture of the Sumerians, an ancient people who lived south of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, which would the current Iraq. The Egyptians used the principles of medicinal plants in a systematic and controlled. There are more than 700 formulas in these plants displayed and printed document more interesting is the Ebers Papyrus, the year 1700 BC, but for all security the use of these plants is earlier in Asia, mainly in China where it is assumed that it was used in 5000 BC A good example is the book that collects the Pen Tsao study of more than 300 plants. In India the use of medicinal plants, known as Ayurbeda, has left written references to the year 800 BC, where about 800 species are described. The Ayurbeda, a whole way of life that involves both medicine and religion, philosophy or science in general offers a healthy lifestyle to achieve full health. Medicinal plants constitute an important resource, along with food or exercise. Ayurvedic medicine shares its methods with those of medicine "Official" is the way to deal with diseases of the poorer classes of this country and is spreading to other Western countries as a leading alternative medicine.
The Greeks and Romans collected the tradition of Mesopotamia and Egypt. They use plants to cure diseases and maintain good health. For example the Greek physician Hippocrates (Kos Island in Greece 460-377 BC), considered the father of medicine, gives utmost importance to preventive medicine and, within this, plants play an important role until point is considered the author of this aphorism: "Let food be your medicine and your medicine your food" The first letter of a scientific nature in the classical period is Materia Medica, written by Dioscorides (40-90 AD). It is a work in five volumes. The Greek physician, born in Anazarbus in Cilicia (a country equivalent to what is now Turkey) worked with the Romans as a botanist, which allowed him to travel. During his travels study the properties of over 1000 plants and many chemical principles and their work served as a reference to the fifteenth century. There have been over it many revisions and translations. The most important revision in Castilian is medicinal plants, pharmaceutical renewed Dioscorides Dr. Pio Font Quer Lleida. It reviewed 682 species, citing the views of Dioscorides, and above all the reviews that this doctor had done Pietro Andrea Mattioli and Andres de Laguna.



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