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Materia medica is a Latin medical term for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing, what we would call a drug. The term was used from the period of the Roman Empire until the twentieth century, but has now been generally replaced in medical education contexts by pharmacology. In Latin the term literally means "medical matters". One of the most well-known early uses of the term was as the title of a work by the Greek pharmaco-botanist Dioscorides in the first century A.D., entitled de materia medica libri quinque (concerning medical matter in five volumes). This famous commentary covered about 600 plant drugs plus a number of therapeutically useful animal and mineral products.
History and Materia Medica of herbs
Therapeutic use of plants and plant products precedes recorded history and seems to occur in all indigenous and preliterate cultures. We have no record of the original concepts of how these substances were thought to work. When we have explanations from ancient Western or Asian civilizations, or obtained from members of primitive cultures, the proposed explanations can often be charaterized as magical—invoking mechanisms or relationships not recognized by science as natural phenomena.
For example, folk healers among European peasantry believed that some of the visible characteristics of plants provided clues to humans about the specific therapeutic value of each plant-- a concept known as the doctrine of signatures.
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@RepShimkus thanks for going deep on this one, and reading the 2000 pages of modern socialism, alias public option or materia medica mess
cessnet (Michael McVey) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:04:38 -0000
@RepShimkus thanks for going deep on this one, and reading the 2000 pages of modern socialism, alias public option or materia medica mess
Jay Chou - Compendium of Materia Medica, I am his big fan lol http://bit.ly/42ImOL http://bit.ly/1KHRZJ
tq_warlords (The Warlords) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:53:25 -0000
Jay Chou - Compendium of Materia Medica, I am his big fan lol http://bit.ly/42ImOL http://bit.ly/1KHRZJ
Jay Chou - Compendium of Materia Medica, I am his big fan lol http://bit.ly/42ImOL http://bit.ly/3rgCFd
tq_conquer (Conquer Online) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:49:47 -0000
Jay Chou - Compendium of Materia Medica, I am his big fan lol http://bit.ly/42ImOL http://bit.ly/3rgCFd
Dioscorides devotes considerable space in his Materia Medica discussing the therapeutic properties of various aromatic herbs and substances
scentualhealing (Tina Ranieri) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:04:09 -0000
Dioscorides devotes considerable space in his Materia Medica discussing the therapeutic properties of various aromatic herbs and substances
@Cardoso A matéria diz que ela é médica. Descontrolada e racista desse jeito, como pode?
ViniciusBruno (VinÃcius Bruno Viana) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:11:46 -0000
@Cardoso A matéria diz que ela é médica. Descontrolada e racista desse jeito, como pode?
New post: Australian Journal of Chinese Medicine and Materia Medica (http://bit.ly/35bQ4B)
amy7665 (Amy Eu) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:29:43 -0000
New post: Australian Journal of Chinese Medicine and Materia Medica (http://bit.ly/35bQ4B)
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