BOT 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ayurveda, Rigveda, Sanguinaria
18 Apr 2017
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Lecture 5: history of herbal medicine and ethno botany. Today 25% of all prescription drugs come from plants. New plant-derived medicinal compounds are discovered every year. They were thought to be meat eaters while new anthropologists found grains in their skull and the thought was that they was a relationship between them using plants to cure things. It indicated a relationship between plants and the supernatural. Jane goodal studied chimpanzees and spider monkeys to see the behaviour; they found that these animals use plants for medical purposes. Chimpanzees eat these plants to relieve them of certain parasites- the worms that are attached to the intestine are removed from the leaves. Contains a written description of each plant, its habit and how it can be used for medicine. Date 2000 bc, sumerian first record of clay tablets with medical information. Date 1500bc egypt ebers papyrus is a catalogue of over 850 herbal remedies from 500 pants (garlic, cannibals)
