Question

Write a short history of plant medicine.

Answer 1

I'd rather not.

Answer 2

Herbal medicine represents our earliest attempt at healing ourselves, and certainly even some animals look for out specific kinds of plant when they have been injured or are sick. Elk have been observed by Native Americans to look for out Echinacea plants when they had been sick, which led to them calling the plants ‘Elk Root’ other wild animals have been observed to chew willow bark when in distress (we now know that willow bark is made up of salicylic acid, or Aspirin as it is identified when synthesised) and monkeys and primates often seek out out selected fruits and roots when they are sick.

Presumably our ancestors would have self-medicated in just this way, no doubt a extended time just before they evolved the power of speech. Estimates as to the precise time when Homo sapiens arose fluctuate from about one hundred,000 a long time ago at the most conservative to up to 600,000 years ago at the most generous (paleoanthropology is a extremely competitive science, and each researcher would like their earliest dated humanoid bone fragments to be confirmed as human rather than ‘proto-human’, but that is another report in itself!) but what is undoubted is that our ancestors were African.

Answer 3

please drop the links. I will add it to what i have.

Answer 4

What Links ?

Answer 5

The reference or source.

Answer 6

LOL Like Which Part ? I Dont Know What Your Talking About LOL

Answer 7

there is none.

Answer 8

i mean the source of the information.

Answer 9

Uhmmm Yeah I Get That But Can You Point Out Where It Is ?