“Medicine of plants, born long time ago, three ages before the Gods, I know your hun
dred and eight principles active!
these are the mothers, your principles, thousands of branches, we already learned, cure this patient! ”
Thus we see magical components related to Herbal Medicine found in absolutely every culture. Plants not only make up formulas “master” but are collected and put under certain times that are governed by the planets and when trigger certain astrological signs, also require certain conditions in the processor, the performance of ointments, etc.. But do not forget that the transmutation of yesterday is the art of today and tomorrow’s science!
* Hippocrates (460-377 BC), born on the island of Kos in the Aegean Sea, is regarded today as the Father of Medicine. Medicinal principles, moral and ethical statements by him, refer to natural treatments based on direct observation of nature and human beings and their laws of life, not add more suffering to the sick and that your food be your medicine. For him, medicine was more art than science and essentially sought to eliminate the causes of the disease and not only to heal the symptoms.
* Claudius Galen (201-130 BC), the famous physician of Marcus Aurelius, was inspired by the Hippocratic work. Medicine today uses his name for the branch that is dedicated to the science of medical materials and preparations: the pharmaceutics.
* Avicenna (930-1037 AD) was a great scholar in various sciences and wrote the Canon of Medicine, based on herbal formulas.
In the early Middle Ages we monastic medicine (s. IX), where the monks took care of it. Gave impetus to the herbarium and the collection and classification of medicinal plants and formulations.
* Albert the Great or Albert the Great (1193-1280 AD) was a famous physician and alchemist, who wrote six books on medicine using plants.
* Paracelsus (1493-1541 AD) physician and alchemist, also used in some minerals and therapeutic healing effects of water, giving great importance to the use of native flora.
* Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), was based on Hippocrates and Paracelsus, developing Homeopathy: “like cures like” (similar similibus curantur), which means that in certain doses, a substance causes certain symptoms of disease in an organism healthy and the same substance, in other doses, cure similar diseases in an individual.
