Natural Components Of Drugs
Natural components of drugs used since ancient times
Empirical and cult to find and use with prophylactic and therapeutic purposes various biologically active natural components of plant, animal and mineral origin, as well as products of the ocean, seas and rivers, have been known since antiquity. Even before the new era in Egypt, China, Tibet, India and other Eastern countries have developed a fairly coherent system of prevention and treatment of various human diseases through the use of mostly in-kind specially prepared food from plant, animal tissues and minerals. Plants in that distant time served as a person and food and medicines. This relationship is over 16 thousand generations of genetically entrenched. Thus, the health of modern man depends largely on the quality and quantity, from food, biologically active compounds. Therefore, their use is one of the most important alternative healing people and the prevention of the most common diseases.
History of the commencement of the special pharmaceutical forms for the treatment of human diseases is approximately 130 - 200 AD, when K. Galen were first developed technological methods of manufacturing medicines (tinctures, extracts and powders) from natural raw materials.
Herbal Medicine has the right to life
A group of British doctors has carried out studies of medicinal properties of plants traditionally used in folk medicine. We investigated the medicinal plants from China, Thailand, Ghana and India. Now many of these plants have medicinal properties proven by science.
For example, curry leaves, which Indian herbalists use in diabetes, reduce blood glucose levels and thus facilitate the patient's condition. Traditional agents used in China and Thailand for the treatment of cancer, and in fact slow the growth of tumors.
There are also plants with antifungal and antibacterial effects, which are also well known in the traditions of herbs.
For this reason, doctors have recommended further research in this area and expand the use of herbs in medicine. In fact, the work of British scientists is the first official recognition of herbs at the international level.