Medicinal Herbs
by Gerard Strong
This brief outline of the history linked to Medicinal herbs and provides some examples for you to try.
1.MEDICINAL HERBS: An introduction
2.ASTROLOGY
3.THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES
4.POISONOUS HERBS
5.HERBS FOR SPECIFIC AILMENTS
6.METHODS OF MAKING MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS
7.HERBAL TEAS
8.THE IMPORTANCE OF HERBS IN THE DIET
It is of significance that pharmacologists are today beginning to assess the increasing value of herbal extracts in the treatment of disease. No longer do we depend on the trial-and-error method, which of necessity had to be used by early man, to discover the effects of a herb. Pharmacologists observe the same exacting standards followed in the evaluation of synthetic drugs to determine if the extracts have the effects attributed to them in the writings and herbals of hundreds of years ago. This method can provide precise information as to the truth or otherwise of the claims made for a particular herb. By this means it can also be discovered whether a plant has medicinal properties which up to now have had no known use.
Herbalism is the study and use of plants for medicinal purposes and is the earliest form of medicine. One of the earliest texts to be discovered was the Ebers Papyrus, written about 1550 B.C., in which the ancient Egyptians wrote down many of their prescriptions and showed their standards of medicine to be surprisingly high. Later their knowledge was to influence Greek medicine to a considerable extent.
1.MEDICINAL HERBS: An introduction
2.ASTROLOGY
3.THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES
4.POISONOUS HERBS
5.HERBS FOR SPECIFIC AILMENTS
6.METHODS OF MAKING MEDICINAL PREPARATIONS
7.HERBAL TEAS
8.THE IMPORTANCE OF HERBS IN THE DIET
It is of significance that pharmacologists are today beginning to assess the increasing value of herbal extracts in the treatment of disease. No longer do we depend on the trial-and-error method, which of necessity had to be used by early man, to discover the effects of a herb. Pharmacologists observe the same exacting standards followed in the evaluation of synthetic drugs to determine if the extracts have the effects attributed to them in the writings and herbals of hundreds of years ago. This method can provide precise information as to the truth or otherwise of the claims made for a particular herb. By this means it can also be discovered whether a plant has medicinal properties which up to now have had no known use.
Herbalism is the study and use of plants for medicinal purposes and is the earliest form of medicine. One of the earliest texts to be discovered was the Ebers Papyrus, written about 1550 B.C., in which the ancient Egyptians wrote down many of their prescriptions and showed their standards of medicine to be surprisingly high. Later their knowledge was to influence Greek medicine to a considerable extent.
