From the greek word pharmakon and gnosis
PHARMACOGNOSY
Pollen grains found in the cave of Shandinar, Iraq
YARROW
MARSHMALLOW
GROUNDSEL
CENTAURY
EPHEDRA
MUSCARI
Give 2 examples of plants cultivated by lake dwellers in new stone age
Papaver somniferum
Fumaria officinalis
In the history of herbalism what did the woman do?
Prepared food and healing potions
In the history of herbalism what did the man do?
Compiled the remedies and wrote them down
Provides the earliest known record of practice of the art of the apothecary
Babylonians
3 practitioners
Priest
Physician
Pharmacist
Includes the record of the first symptoms of illness, the prescription and directions for compounding, then an invocation to the gods
Text on clay tablet
Two types of medical practitioners
Ashipu and Asu
Sometimes called “Sorcerer”
Ashipu
Diagnose the ailment
Ashipu
Specialist in herbal remedies
Asu
Emperor in ancient china
Shen Nung
Written the first Pen T sao recording 365
Shen Nung
Author of the book “Treatise on the treatment of acute diseases caused by colds” (Shang Hang Lun)
Witten by chang chung ching
Companion book of Shang hang lun
Prescriptions from the Golden Chamber
Companion book of Shang hang lun
Prescriptions from the Golden Chamber
