Foreigners evaluate the traditional medical model.

As far as I know, the ancients in China were sick and ate Chinese herbal medicine, and foreigners were sick in ancient times? Everything is medicine. , also is given priority to with plants. ?

Under the same blue sky, people in different parts of the world have similar brain structures and functions. Faced with similar natural environment and diseases, the developed drugs are very similar to those used in nature.

Medically speaking, Chinese medicine regards almost all substances in people's living environment as medicines, mainly plants, collectively referred to as Chinese herbal medicines; Similar to traditional medicine in other parts of the world? A panacea? , also is given priority to with plants.

Here are two examples of therapeutic drugs used in systematic medicine since ancient times in the world.

Mesopotamian medicine

Mesopotamia refers to the Euphrates and Tigris river basins, which is the oldest recorded civilization in the world.

The Mesopotamian civilization in 4000 BC produced Assyrian and Babylonian medicine.

The core idea of this ancient medicine is China's ancient harmony between man and nature, which holds that there is a close relationship between man and animals and between man and the earth.

Based on this understanding, the drugs used in medicine are the same as those used in traditional Chinese medicine, including fruits, leaves, flowers, skins and roots of various plants, such as lotus root, olive, longan, myrtle, chicken tail orchid and garlic. Various parts of the animal body, including internal organs; Various minerals, such as alum, copper, iron, etc.

Of course, there are also all kinds of witchcraft, right? Exorcism? .

There are many forms of pharmaceutical preparations, such as pills, powders and enemas. Drugs can also be injected into the vagina or rectum through some instruments.

Ancient Egyptian medicine

After the Liangjiang Civilization, the ancient Egyptian civilization in the Nile Valley advanced by leaps and bounds and formed its own medical system, which was mainly recorded in several medical works such as Elbers, Bruce and Smith.

A large number of prescriptions and prescriptions are recorded.

For example, nearly 1000 species are recorded in Hebrews only.

The most commonly used are honey, malt liquor, yeast, oil, dates, figs, onions, garlic, flaxseed, fennel and so on. Followed by myrrh, aloe, lettuce, safflower, opium and so on. Of course, there are all kinds of animals and organs (fat, brain, excrement, blood), such as seahorses, crocodiles, antelopes, deer, birds, reptiles, fish and so on. Minerals such as aluminum salt, antimony, copper and sodium carbonate.