BOT 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Herbalism, Ayurveda, Rigveda
14 Mar 2016
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Production of food supplements including vitamins, amino acids and herbal extracts. Today 25% of all prescription drugs come from plants. New plant-derived medicinal compounds are discovered every year. Herbal medicine started 60,000 bc in iraq. Jane goodall studied chimpanzees and what they ate and what came out, this was in order to get rid of worms. Herbal contains a written description of each plant, its habitat and how it is used for medicine. 2000 bc, sumeria first record of clay tablets with medicinal information. 1500 bc, egypt ebers papyrus is a catalogue of over 850 herbal remedies. 2500 bc, china the divine husbandman"s classic standard for chinese medicine. 1500 bc, india rig veda: indian herbal and basis for ayurvedic medicine. 500 bc, greek and roman empires hippocrates credited with developing herbal remedies in ancient greece. Medicine focused on hour bodily fluids (humours) and illnesses due to humoral imbalance, could be treated with a herb that had the opposite properties.
