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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. Nowadays we would call these drugs. In Latin, the term literally means "medical matters".
'Materia medica' (), in traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy, is an ancient name of Chinese materia medica (中药, or 中药学), or Chinese materia medica works (中药学著作). In pharmacy, 'Bencao'((), also known as 'Herbals' of 'medicinal works', is the ancient name of Chinese traditional drugs, and the materia medica works for in past Chinese dynasties.
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, except in homeopathy, where it remains current.
One of the best-known early uses of the term was in 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.
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 characterized 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.
In the early twentieth century, the body of knowledge termed materia medica was transformed by the methods and knowledge of medicinal chemistry into the science of pharmacology.
★ Homeopathic Materia Medica
★ Homeopathic Remedies Organised in a Tabular Form
★ Homeopathy Materia Medica - Extensive information about homeopathic materia medica with online books on materia medica.
★ Materia Medica /Pura homeopathy
★ Herbal Materia Medica
★ Tibetan Materia Medica
'''Materia medica''' is a Latin medical term for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic properties of any substance used for healing. Nowadays we would call these drugs. In Latin, the term literally means "medical matters".
'Materia medica' (), in traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacy, is an ancient name of Chinese materia medica (中药, or 中药学), or Chinese materia medica works (中药学著作). In pharmacy, 'Bencao'((), also known as 'Herbals' of 'medicinal works', is the ancient name of Chinese traditional drugs, and the materia medica works for in past Chinese dynasties.
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, except in homeopathy, where it remains current.
One of the best-known early uses of the term was in 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.
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| History and Materia Medica of herbs |
| References |
| See also |
| External links |
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 characterized 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.
In the early twentieth century, the body of knowledge termed materia medica was transformed by the methods and knowledge of medicinal chemistry into the science of pharmacology.
References
See also
★ Homeopathic Materia Medica
External links
★ Homeopathic Remedies Organised in a Tabular Form
★ Homeopathy Materia Medica - Extensive information about homeopathic materia medica with online books on materia medica.
★ Materia Medica /Pura homeopathy
★ Herbal Materia Medica
★ Tibetan Materia Medica
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