For a long time, magic and medicine have remained inseparable in the popular imagination. Today, the medical dependency become almost total. However, three quarters of the drugs are still derived from plants.
1
The oldest medical treatise of the world is
Sumerian 2 . 4 000 years old, it sets out the procedures to make remedies by spraying or infusion of more than 30 plants.
At the beginning of the XV
th century, Paracelsus began to extract the essence plants through distillation.
In the fifteenth
th century, nutmeg, cloves. ginger and cinnamon from Asia were regarded as medicinal food.
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist and physician father of medicine sealed
3 , he developed a doctrine which matches the outside world (macrocosm)
4 with different parts of the human body (microcosm)
5 .*
Lavoisier, scholar, one of the founders of modern chemistry, he discovered the composition of air and water, the role of oxygen in combustion and respiration .*
1 Excerpts from the Encyclopedia of Nature.
2 In Sumeria, the lower region of ancient Mesopotamia, near the Persian Gulf. The Sumerians were established in Lower Mesopotamia in the fourth th century.
3 Hermetic : hidden, difficult to understand and known only by insiders.
4 Macrocosm : The world in its relationship with Analog Man (microcosm) in the tradition of esoteric and alchemical .*
5 Microcosm : philosophy and the esoteric doctrines, be a reduction constituting a world whose structure reflects the world (macrocosm) to which it belongs. (The man and considered in relation to the universe) .
Ref : Le Petit Larousse illustré 2006 13 avril 2010
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