ダウンロード Medical Herbalism: Natural Medicine, Herbs, and Plants for Common Ailments. (English Edition) epub 本

Medical Herbalism before the development of man as a species, herbs have been used to treat disease. Animals often chew certain plants to induce vomiting or treat other conditions. Medicinal plants. shamans, or tribal healers, most likely observed this behavior and developed a base of knowledge about what herbs and plants were most effective and passed that knowledge down through the generations. In addition to treating disease and injury, the body of knowledge included ways to use herbs to improve nutrition and improve mental health. Encyclopedia of herbal medicine. despite its ancient history, herbalism has only recently reemerged as an accepted practice in the modern western world. In most European countries, once medical schools began training doctors in large numbers, the practice of herbalism fell into disfavor. In fact, many of the witch trials of the Middle Ages involved women who were actually herbalists. However, herbalism continued to be practiced uninterrupted in almost all non-industrialized countries and is still the favored method of treating disease in many parts of the world. Medical herbalism degree. although many of our most popular medicines have been developed from plants, including quinine, digitalis and codeine, scientists have only recently begun to return to plants as sources to create new medications. However, the use of plants to create medications should not be confused with true herbalism which uses the plants themselves as medication.