Ancient Book Describing Medical and Culinary Uses for Plants
The Greek physician Dioscorides who worked in the Roman army documented over 1000 recipes for medicines using over 600 medicinal plants in De materia medica c. Ancient Chinese scriptures and Egyptian papyrus hieroglyphics describe medicinal uses plants. 95 Best Selling Herbal Remedies Books Of All Time Bookauthority The Chinese book on roots and grasses Pen TSao written by Emperor Shen Nung circa 2500 BC treats 365 drugs dried parts of medicinal plants many of which are used even nowadays such as the following. . A couple of hundred years later in around AD70 Roman army physician Pedanius Dioscorides a Turkish-born Greek described 600 medicinal plants in his five-volume De Materia Medica. Rhei rhisoma camphor Theae folium Podophyllum the great yellow gentian ginseng jimson weed cinnamon bark and ephedra34. The Drunken Botanist. A new book by botanists at Washington University in St. The Nineveh Medical Encyclopaedia is a 2...