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The History of Natural Supplements
The origins of the use of natural supplements to treat illnesses go as far back as the origins of man. Since the times when man started exploring and experimenting with nature and its resources, man has been aware of the beneficial and harmful effects of a variety of plants.
The Sumerians, the Chinese and the Indians and people from other regions of the world generally discovered that certain herbs had healing properties. For a long time, the body of knowledge gained through the discoveries about medicinal uses of plants passed from one generation to the next generation by word of mouth. Then about 5000 years ago, the Sumerians recorded their knowledge about medicinal herbs on clay tablets' The Chinese produced a book, under instructions from their emperor Chi3?en Nung, containing names of almost 300 medicinal herbs. Among them was ma huang, (Ephedra sinica), from which modern day scientists have isolated ephedrine. As you may know, ephedrine is a major ingredient in some diet pills that are widely available today. In the Indian herbal tradition, there is a knowledge base of diseases, their symptoms and the natural supplments prescribed for treating them. It is called Ayurveda. By about the 2nd century B.C., there were experts who knew about more than 700 or 800 indigenous Indian medicinal herbs and these were even then used in the treatment of patients. Ayurveda is still widely practiced in India as an alternative system of medicine. ----------------------------------------------------------- Suffering from chronic headaches? End the pain. Click here for complere details about natural headache cures ------------------------------------------------------------ Natural supplements and the Babylonians
Later, the Babylonians (who lived in almost the same region as that of modern day Iraq), and also the ancient Chinese and the Indians, influenced the Greeks and the Romans in the field of herbs and natural supplements. The Europeans learned and improved upon the knowledge they gained about herbs from traveling monks from the Middle East with the help of the translations monks made from Arabic works.
When European settlers came to America, they found that the Native Americans had extensive knowledge about the medicinal properties of the local herbs. Many of the herbs that Native Americans discovered and used for their medicinal properties are now a subject of attention in modern scientific studies.
The use of herbs or natural supplements also developed indigenously in other regions of the world. Native people in Australia, Africa, and the South Pacific had their herbal traditions. European soldiers and travelers learned the traditions of these native peoples and developed their herbal knowledge.
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