Plant Medicines for Clinical Trial

Plant Medicines for Clinical Trial

Plant Medicines

Our species has always used plants as medicines, during our 200,000 year existence. This is made obvious by the plant medicines found in mummy burials, around the world, dating back thousands of years. Human beings evolved using plant medicines to stay alive. This has resulted in a genetic selection in which those who were healed by plant medicines and survived were able to pass on their genes. Modern humans must continue to use plant medicines. When a Traditional Healer is asked how her people learned how to use a specific plant medicine, the answer is usually that God taught them. Each of us has a spiritual sense that can be used to seek answers [1]. Finding a new plant medicine involves fasting, praying, and spending as much as four days with the plant that will become a new medicine [2]. Traditional Healers are still the major or only source of healthcare for many regions of the world. The loss of Traditional Healers in some areas has resulted in major changes in healthcare, sometimes to the detriment of the people . Since Traditional Healers may be religious leaders also, they provide moral direction for the community.

James David Adams (Ed.)

https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/686

MPDI

2018

MPDI
J®F

Creative Commons

PDF

English

Textbooks

ISBN 978-3-03897-023-1 (Pbk)
ISBN 978-3-03897-024-8 (PDF)