The historical roots of herbs and their value today
The historical roots of herbs and their value today
As herbs out all the plants that can be used either for cooking or medicine. They contain active substances which, when taken from living organisms, possess the property of a medicinal product. They may be flowers, fruits roots, roots or leaves of plants and trees. Herbs were the first drugs that man used.
Study and research around them is lost over the centuries. Particular progress has however been made during ancient Greek and Roman times. They were then used to treat patients or to relieve themselves of various painful conditions.
Hippocrates, the Left the elis t, Theophrastus, Dioscorides and many others were among the leading scholars.
The father of Medicine, Hippocrates, recorded about 400 kinds of herbs whose use was known during the 5th century BC. Later Dioscorides in the 1st century. AD. reported 600 plants that were used as drugs.
The main parts of the plants used for curative purposes in ancient Greece were the flowers, the fruits, the roots and the leaves. Due to the lack of technological means that exist today, people have then subjected these parts of herbs to simplistic treatments .Indicatively, they mixed them with other substances (eg honey), boiled them in water or wine, pulverized , dried or they were mashing .
It is especially interesting that one of the ways that perceived the properties of herbs was to observe the choice of animals in nature. That is, they observed what plant instinctively selected the wounded, for example, animals or animals such as snakes, which were believed to have "demonic" powers. Like this was also the legend for the seer Polyido who resurrected mi Upper behold Glafcos herb with which he took from the snakes.
In addition to the myths of the various herbs, it is an objective fact that herbs have been the man's only weapon for many years to cope with the pain. Every culture even had a basic healing flora from which she chose her cures. This range of plants varies naturally from area to region, depending on the local system.
The Greek land is rich in herbs and has a great variety. Even today, in many areas, different plants are used as a doctor (and not just ) for the treatment of symptoms.
The botany, by extension, is the science that deals with the study of herbs and their use for therapeutic purposes. It is still interesting that many of the drugs currently used are based on the substances of some herbs.
The herbs and the substances they contain are objects of scientific studies, which even confirm many of the healing qualities they gave him in the past.
Prudent use, proper selection of the herb and proper treatment are the necessary steps to put the "magic" world of herbs into our lives.
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Aggeliki Koskeridou
Holistic Doctor – Counseling Psychotherapist
Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
MSc c. Health Psychology
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