Herbalism, also known as medicinal Botany, medical herbalism, herbal medicine, herbology, botanical medicine and phytotherapy, is a traditional medicinal or folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and plant extracts. The bioinformatics related to this subject could be referred to as MedBotanics.
Utilizing the healing properties of plants is an ancient practice. People in all continents have long used hundreds, if not thousands, of indigenous plants for treatment of various ailments dating back to prehistory. There is evidence that suggests Neanderthals living 60,000 years ago in present-day Iraq used plants for medicinal purposes. These plants are still widely used in ethnomedicine around the world
Useful Resources:
- http://en.wikipedia.org – Types of herbal medicines
- http://www.herbs.org/ – Herb Research Foundation – Herbal Medicine
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ – Botanicals, Phytotherapy
- http://www.rchm.co.uk/ – Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine
- http://www.herbmed.org/ – interactive, electronic herbal database
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An effective herbal cleanser is worth it’s weight in gold. Nothing seems to do a better job than natural’s work.
I would like permission to use your picture above on my blog for an article I’m writing on the many uses of plants.
Thank you.
Pam Kersting