Historical of Herbal Treatment

Notes on history, a study on the herbal plant was started at 5.000 in the nation Sumerians, who has been using herbal plants for the purposes of treatment, such as a tree, a kind of plant pewangi, and hellebore. The people of Egypt from 1000 BC. known to have used garlic, opium, castor oil, coriander, mint, color / indigo plants, and plants for herbal treatment. Ancient documents also mention the use of plants / herbal medicine herbal, including trees mandrak (toxic), vetch, a kind of plant pewangi, wheat, jewawut, and rye.

books on herbal plants from China around the year 200 BC with 365 plants and the use of drug-use of these herbal plants are mentioned, including ma-Huang, who introduced efedrina to modern treatment.

Greek nation and the nation make use of ancient Rome herbal plants for healing. As written in the note Hipocrates, Galen practices, especially Greek and Roman peoples in the herbal treatment to become a reference in the implementation of the treatment in the west later. Greek and Roman practices that relate to the drug, such as that maintained in any posts in Hippocrates and - especially-Kekasih, which provided patterns for later western medicine. Hippocrates suggested the simple herbal usage, such as air, a healthy, fresh and clean, rest, and a reasonable diet.

Meanwhile, Galen recommends the use of doses of large-dose of medication mix-mix, including plants, animals, herb-herb and mineral. The expert medical Greek nation is the first European people who make use of reference-the use of drugs from plants, De Materia Medica.

In the first century after Christ, Dioscorides wrote a summary of more than 500 plants, which is the reference material during the 17th century.
Equally important for the expert treatment and herbal plants in the experts find the books of the Greek nation, Theophrastus Historia Plantarum, written in the 4 th century.

The use of plant-plant for treatment and other goals changed little during the Middle Century. At the beginning, the church menakut-nakuti treatment practices of formal and more like healing through prayer, but many of the nation any posts Greek and written about the Roma nation treatment, the script-naskahnya with neatly maintained in the monastery church-monastery.

Convent-monastery tend to become centers of local medical knowledge and medicinal plant gardens they provide raw materials for simple treatment. At the same time, treatment of the people in the house in villages support the development of herbal experts. Among the participating developing is what they call "wise woman", women also provide in addition to the herbal medicine concoction and mantra-incantation incantation. One of the most famous women in the herbal is Hildegard of Bingen, from the medieval nun benediktin to twelve, he was writing a book titled Causes and Cures.

Medical schools start back in the centuries to eleven, the system teaches Galen. At that time, the Arab World more advanced in science than Europe. Because culture has trade, Arabs have access to plant crops that come from places as far away of China and India. Translation-translation of the classic medical and herbal medical translated from the east (arab) to the west (Europe). In addition to the development of universities, herbal treatment of the people still grow with the fertile.

The importance of herbal plants continue to be in the Middle Century. This is marked by hundreds of books published about herbal after finding about the invention of printing in the fifteen century. Theophrastus Historia Plantarum was one of the first book printed and then proceed with the De Materia Medica not much later.

Century-to fifteen, sixteen and seventeen times that of the world for herbal treatment, many books available for the first time in English and languages other than Latin or Greek. Herbal book is first published in the English language is Grete Herball the author is not known in the year 1526. Both the famous book in English is The Herball or General History of Plants (1597) by John Gerard and The English Physician Enlarged (1653) by Nicholas Culpeper.

Gerard book is essentially a translation of the book-length Dodoens, herbal experts from Beldia-illustrated and its illustrations of how the nation came to work in the German handling of the plant. The original edition contains many errors pemadanan false because of two things, \ treatment with traditional Astrology, magic, fairy-tale and be ridiculed by doctors at that time. But his book, such as books other herbal experts still preferred by many people.

Era of exploration and exploration, such as the Columbus plant to introduce new drugs to Europe. manuscript describes the use of herbal Badianus by the Aztec, which was then translated into Latin in the 16-th century.

On the second millennium, is the beginning setback herbal treatment. This began with the start dikenalnya active chemical substances such as arsenic, copper sulfate, iron, mercury and sulfur, followed by the rapid development of sciences that encourage other chemical treatment using a treatment that is made from chemicals.