Veterinary papyrus

The ancient use of plants, not essential oils, can be found in fragments of Egyptian herbals. The names of various plants, their habitats, characteristics, and the purposes for which they were used are included in the following Veterinary papyrus pa. 2000. . ), Gynaecological papyrus ca. 2000. . ), Edwin Smith Papyrus (an army surgeon s manual, ca. 1600. . ), Papyrus Ebers (includes remedies for health, beauty, and the home, ca. 1600. . ), Hearst Papyrus (with prescriptions and spells, cfl. 1400. ), and Demotic medical papyri second century. . to rst century. . ). 

Plants have always played a central role in traditional systems of medicine for the prevention and treatment of disease worldwide [10, 11]. Although an in-depth history of plant medicines, for both human and veterinary purposes is beyond the scope of this review, it is important to understand that for thousands of years the traditional medicine in all countries exclusively employed naturally occurring plant medicines. For example, Hippocrates (5th century B.C.) mentions approximately 300 to 400 medicinal plants in his medical writings Dioscorides (1st century A.D.) wrote De Materia Medica, a medicinal plant treatise that outlined the medical use of numerous plant species and many hundreds of plant remedies are described in the Papyrus of Ebers, discovered in Egypt, which was written about 1550 BC [5, 11]. Furthermore, traditional Chinese medicine uses multiple plant prescriptions and has served the health needs of the Chinese population for over 5000 years [12, 13]. The Bible also described over 30 plant species, including frankincense and myrrh, which are reported to have antiseptic and healing properties [5]. 

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