Chinese, the Egyptians, and Indian Ayurvedic Medicine history of
herbs goes back a long, long time. An Egyptian medical document,
called the Ebers Papyrus, found in 1874 by a German
Egyptologist, Georg Ebers, contains a listing of 800 medicinal
drugs including anise, caraway, coriander, fennel, cardamom,
garlic, saffron, and poppy seed to name a few. They used these
in medicine, cosmetics, aromatics, cooking, fumigating, and most
important, embalming. It dates back to about 1700 B.C. and
records the use of common herbs such as garlic and juniper being
used medicinally for about 4000 years. the days of Ramses III,
hemp was used for eye problems just as it may be prescribed for
glaucoma today, and poppy seeds were used to quiet crying
children. The Chinese claim an even earlier record than the
Egyptians. Who wrote the first herbal may not be as important as
the knowledge that herbs have been used to benefit mankind since
way before recorded history. This knowledge was handed down for
generations until writing w