The origins of Western medicine and its original plant remedies derived from Greek myth.
Auteur: Angela Paine
Jaar: 2022
Druk: niet genoemd
ISBN: 9781789045284 / 1789045282
Taal: Engels
332 pagina's
Uitgeverij: Moon Books
Paperback, nieuw.
Achterflaptekst:
Greek
myth is part of our background, the names of many of the gods and goddesses
known to us all. Within the myths are numerous references to plants used by
goddesses and gods to heal or enchant, and the names of many of these plants
have been incorporated into the Latin binomials that are used to identify them.
By half a millennium BCE the physician god Asclepius entered into the mythology
and temples were built to him called Asclepiaea, where the sick came to worship
him and sleep with serpents in dormitories, hoping to experience miracle cures.
At around the same time the first actual physicians began to practice within
the Asclepiaea, using herbs, surgery and dietary advice.
From these remote beginnings Greek medicine and botany evolved and were recorded, first in the Hypocratic Corpus, then by many other famous Greek physicians including Theophrastus, Dioscorides and Galen, who recorded the medicinal plants they used. This book traces the evolution of Greek medicine, the source of Western medicine, and looks at a selection of plants with healing properties, including a large number of trees which were both sacred and medicinal.
Angela
Paine has a BSc in Human Physiology and a PhD from the School of Pharmacy,
London University in medicinal plant chemistry. She has been on research trips
to Europe, Africa and South America to collect plant material used as medicine,
and collaborated with scientists around the world, publishing internationally
in scientific journals. She runs workshops on Medicinal Plants.
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Healing Plants of Greek Myth
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