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Herbal History
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Herbal History
From earliest times, man has benefited from the
life-enhancing properties of plants.
In the most primitive periods, man utilized plants
as food, medicine, shelter, and tools with which to
expand knowledge and survive.
plants also held an intricate connection to man's
spiritual and magical beliefs.
The oldest evidence of plants utilized by humans is
a 60,000 year old burial site from Mesopotamia (modem-day
Iraq) that contained eight different herbs arranged
about the corpse in a way to suggest the plants held
spiritual as well as medicinal significance.
Though historians believe the medicinal use of herbs
precede this date, the oldest remaining physical evidence
is significant.
The most recent evidence tells us that this use of
herbs predates the invention of the wheel by roughly
56,000 years.
There can be no question as to the essential and fundamental
connection of herbs and the physical and spiritual
essence of human life.
The oldest written record of medicinal herbs comes
much later on a 5,000 year old Sumerian clay tablet
that depicts several herbal remedies.
Herbs Today
There are more than 70,000 known species of plants in
existence. The therapeutic effects of each plant and combinations
of plants are virtually limitless.
Advancements in science and individual and controlled
experimentation lead to continual discovery of value and
utility of plant life.
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