Plant extracts and parasites

Man in all civilizations knew the importance of medicinal plants through experience, and were guided to treat diseases and treat diseases. Using it experimentally as well, as herbal medicine is the oldest known method of medicine, as archaeological excavations have shown the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians were the first to know about herbal medicine, and it was found in the ancient city of Babylon that information those relating to plants used in medicine were recorded on stone and clay cylinders and tablets with inscriptions on them more than 250 plants. Among them are acacia, dandelion, cumin, turmeric and myrrh, as well as mother-in-law engraved on the rock dating back to 1728 BC, it stipulates the use of a group of plants medicine to heal many ailments in the land, and in Egypt, ancient writings and colorful pictures on the walls of temples indicate the graves of thousands of Pharaohs, as well as the remains of herbs found in those tombs next to mummified bodies to use that Plants since 3000 years BC, the most important sources of information about ancient Egyptian medicine and therapeutics medicines came through papyrus scrolls.

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Lecture. Samaher Hazim Sultan Al Nuaimi, Department of life Sciences, College of Education of Girls, University of Mosul, Iraq