What are the mysterious drugs in ancient civilization on World Traditional Medicine Day?

65438+1October 22nd is World Traditional Medicine Day. Traditional medicine with a little mystery often plays an unexpected role in the treatment of diseases. When it comes to traditional medicine, people will first think of China's long history of traditional Chinese medicine.

In addition to traditional Chinese medicine in China, there are many "unknown" traditional medicine in the world. Below Xinhua Health will take stock of them for you. Arab traditional medicine? During the Abbasid Dynasty after 750 AD, Arab doctors made many world-famous drugs, such as plantain seed powder, Pelargonium powder, Shensheng powder, rhubarb and purple prescription, Long Xianxiang and rose water.

Egyptian Traditional Medicine In the Egyptian sculpture in 2500 BC, we can see the operation performed by surgeons at that time. The earliest medical monograph in ancient Egypt is a papyrus medical book, which was written in about BC 1900 ~ BC 1500, covering records from 3000 BC to 2500 BC. Now there are Kang's papyrus medical books, Smith's papyrus medical books and Elbers's papyrus medical books.

Medicine in Mesopotamia? Mesopotamia refers to the Tigris and Euphrates river basins, with the present southern Iraq as the center. The earliest civilization in this area can be traced back to 5000 BC.

Cuneiform writing around 3000 BC records that the liver and viscera are the centers of blood, and diseases are divided into fever, stroke, mental symptoms, eye diseases, ear diseases and jaundice. In addition, there are rheumatism, heart disease, tumor, abscess, schistosomiasis, dysentery, pneumonia, skin diseases and sexually transmitted diseases. Some descriptions are very close to modern medicine.