health, that's what all people want ..
but being healthy is not easy, especially in the era now, where most of the drugs from the dangerous chemicals.
before we know the pill, capsule or types of medicines other chemicals, our ancestors knew more potent treatmentand no harmful effect, namely herbal remedies.
they can live up to hundreds of years because they comsumption herbal medicine, there are no harmful effect although there but did not cause death.
Herbal medicine (herbalism) is a traditional medicine or folk medicine based on the use of plants and plant extracts. Herbalism is also known as treatment with respect to the use of plants for treatment, medical herbs, herbal medicine, herbology, and phytotherapy. Sometimes the scope of the drug used plant materials expanded products including mushrooms and bees, minerals, skin / shell-skin / shells and certain animal parts.

HISTORY OF HERBAL MEDICINES

in recorded history, a study on herbal plants, starting at 5.000 earlier in the Sumerians, who has been using herbal plants for treatment purposes, such as laurel, a type of plant fragrance, and hollyhock. The people of Egypt from 1000 BC. known to have used garlic, opium, castor oil, coriander, candy, color / indigo plants, and plant other herbs for treatment. In Ancient documents also mention the use of plants / medicinal herbs, including plant mandrak (poisonous), vetch, a kind of fragrance plant, wheat, barley, and rye.

book on Chinese herbal plants were recorded around the year 200 BC which includes 365 medicinal plants and uses of herbal plants, such problems mentioned included Huang, who introduced efedrina to modern medicine.

The Greeks and the ancient Romans made use of herbs for healing. As stated in the note Hipocrates, especially Galen practice of the Greeks and Romans in herbal medicine to be a reference in the implementation of treatment in the west at a later date. Greek and Roman practices in connection with a drug which, as preserved in the Hippocratic writings, which provided the patterns for later western medicine. Hippocrates advocated the use of simple herbs, such as the air healthy, fresh and clean, rest and proper diet.

While Galen advocated the use of doses of medication mixtures, including plants, animals, and mineral ingredients. The medical experts of the Greeks is the first European to make reference uses of medicinal plants, De Materia Medica.In the first century AD, Dioscorides wrote a summary of more than 500 plants, which become reference materials during the 17th century.
Equally important for medical specialists and experts herbal plants in the nation to find a book from Greece, Theophrastus Historia Plantarum, written in the 4th century.

The use of plants for treatment and other purposes changed little during the Middle Ages. At first the church to frighten the formal practice of medicine and healing preferred through prayer, but many writings of the Greeks and the Romans, writing about the treatment, which preserved texts neatly inside the church monasteries.

Monasteries tend to be local centers of medical knowledge, and their medicinal plants garden provides the raw materials for simple treatment. At the same time, treatment of people in the house at the village herbalist to support the development. Among the developed part is what they call a "wise woman", women who also provides medicinal herbs in addition to spells and incantations. One of the most famous woman in the herb is Hildegard of Bingen, Benedictine nuns from the twelve century, he wrote a book entitled The Causes and Cures.

Medical schools began again in the eleventh century, Galen taught system. At that time, the Arab world is more advanced in science than Europe. Because a culture of trade, Arabs have access to plant crops that come from places as far away as China and India Affairs. Medical translations of classic and herbal medical translated from the east (arab) to the west (Europe). In addition to the university development, herbal medicine people still flourish.

The importance of herbal plants continues in the Middle Ages. It was marked by the publication of hundreds of books on herbs after the discovery of the discovery of printing in the fifteenth century. Theophrastus Historia Plantarum was one of the first book printed and after that continued with the De Materia Medica soon.

Century fifteen, sixteen and seventeen times of great progress for the world of herbal remedies, many of the books available for the first time in English and languages other than Latin or Greek. Herbal book first published in the English language is that Grete Herball unknown author in 1526. Both books are well known in the English language is the Herball or General History of Plants (1597) by John Gerard and The Home Physician Enlarged (1653) by Nicholas Culpeper.

Gerard's book is essentially a translation of the book by Dodoens, herbalist from Belgia and his illustrations came from the way the German people to work in regards to the plant. The original edition contained many errors due to wrong equation of two things, \ traditional medicine with astrology, magic, and fairy tales ridiculed by the doctors at that time. But his book, like the books other herbalist still preferred by many people.

Era of exploration and discovery as the columbus introduced new medicinal plants to Europe. Badianus manuscript describes the use of herbs by the Aztecs who later translated into Latin in the 16th century.

In the second millennium, is the beginning of the decline of herbal remedies. This began with the start known active chemicals such as arsenic, copper sulfate, iron, mercury and sulfur, followed by rapid development of chemical sciences that encourage treatment options using treatment made from chemicals. (chen)