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Medicinal Plants - our natural medicine pharmacy
Hippocrates
the "Father of Modern Medicine" |
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Earliest records that now survive, show that our ancestors discovered that some plants are good for food and others have healing properties.
This was the first step in a lengthy process of trial and error by which early man in different communities slowly built up the knowledge about plants.
Hippocrates (460-377BC) - who formulated the oath taken by many graduating physicians (the Hippocratic Oath) - known as the "Father of Modern Medicine" was fond of saying "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food".
This clearly indicates that in ancient Greece the association between diet, plants and health was well-known and respected.
This knowledge has been handed down generation by generation by word of mouth and intuition.
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Herbal Medicine uses herbs fresh and dried, added to your food, or as herbal teas, in tincture form, and as an extract.
If you look at the plant kingdom you can often recognise the signature that nature has provided. Some leaves look like a heart, others like blood vessels, others like veins and so on. Known as the doctrine of Signature, these indications have guided mankind's use of Nature's pharmacopia for thousands of years.
There are thousands of different types of herbs and many trees and barks are used for medicine as well.
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Natural medicines - a great joy for me
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There is a herb on earth for every ailment
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| Medicines distilled from Nature |
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Some of the medicinal plants we use daily at Middle Path include:
Some other culinary plants which I find very helpful for health and vitality:
This document (www.middlepath.com.au/plant/medicine.php) was last updated on Monday June 16th 2008 || email
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