HERBAL MEDICINE COURSE

Courses are addressed to:
⇒ who loves Natural Cures;
⇒ who wants to enter on the herbal medicine world;
⇒ who wants to obtain the Naturopathy Diploma;
⇒ Naturopaths and Doctors motivated to include medicinal herbs in their own healthcare and remedies methods;
⇒ Operators of every level sector.

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THE HISTORY of HERBAL MEDICINE

Prehistoric finds testify the use of plants by the side of man for his wellness. Also in the great culture of the past (Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China) the use of herbs, oils and perfumes was very popular.

Chinese people represents one of the civilizations that mostly has recoursed to the use of the plants and that has devoted a depth study to them.
Indeed, the ancient Chinese herbarium Pen Ts'ao Ching (" The classical of the medicinal herbs" also known as Shen Nung, or rather "Medical Subject"), attributed to emperor Shen-Nung and dated to 5000 years ago, it collects the description of several officinal plants and over 200 herbal prescriptions, some of them also based on ephedra, rhubarb and opium poppy.
In more recent times, at the end of the XVI century, Li Shizhen (considered the greatest Chinese naturalist and also says "the Chinese Hippocrates") published a work of 52 volumes, the Pen Ts'ao Kang Mu ("Catalog of the medicinal herbs" or "Great Pharmacopoeia" or "Great herbarium"), including 1094 medicinal plants and around 11.000 herbal compositions.

The Greeks acquired a lot of knowledge from Egyptian and Middle-Eastern people, especially through Alexandrine School. Illustrious figures attended to Healthy Herbal Medicine: Phytagoras, Hippocrates (which elaborated again the vision of 'terrestrial'), Theophrastus and Dioscorides of Anazarbus, Roman empire pharmacologist, which in the I sec. B.C. wrote the Medical De Materia, a treatise where are classified the medicinal treatments then known and over 600 officinal plants, some of which still used.
Romans have inherited knowledge from Greek, Etruscan and Gallic people. In herbal physician field, we have mention: Cato, Pliny the Elder, Andromachus (inventor of the famous Theriaca) and Galen with his own Galenic formulations some of them still prepared today by pharmacist.
When the Arabs arrived in Europe, connection with Oriental Medicines was restored, with Indian Ayurvedic one especially. And it just was through junction among Greek, Arab and Jewish tradition that "Schola Medica Salernitana" was born in the 9th century.

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