‘phytotherapy’

Phytotherapy or herbal medicine

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

The phrase “this does not save or Chinese doctor” is the result of the successes in the performance of traditional herbal medicine made by Dr Cham Bom Bian of the city of Cardenas, Matanzas province, in the nineteenth century.
<br /> Phytotherapy or herbal medicine
Herbal medicine or phytotherapy is a therapeutic practice that different preparations of plants used to treat diseases. It is considered one of the first systems of healing and continuing today.

In Egypt since the 1300s B.C. and cultivated plants collected for medicinal purposes by the papyri of the time. A builder of temples and pyramids were given garlic to keep them healthy. Some papyri, such as Smith, account for more than 400 raw materials, both animal and plant for the treatment of disease.

In Babylon the king Mardukapaolidine II (772-710 BC) built a garden for growing medicinal plants for which he became famous. (more…)

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