Valeriana officinalis.
Valeriana officinalis.
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DOI：
10.1089/107555301300004493
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发表时间：
2001
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
R. Upton
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作者：
R. Upton
从最早的医学史开始，医学知识就通过书写“草药”来传达，简单地说，草药指的是包含植物名称、描述和药用价值的书籍。虽然这个术语直到16世纪初才开始使用，但在古埃及、苏美尔和中国已经产生了医学植物学著作。其中最早的一种是纸莎草埃伯斯，它可以追溯到公元前1550年左右，但被认为起源于5-25个世纪之前。这些草药不仅提供了药用植物使用的记录，而且由于它们对医生和商人的巨大重要性，它们是最重要的出版作品之一，并提供了印刷术本身的文字历史。在古代草药中，有一本最具影响力的医学著作脱颖而出，从公元1世纪到1500年后，它一直是药学的权威来源——希腊医生和草药学家佩达尼奥斯的《本草》
Since the earliest days of written medical history, medical knowledge has been conveyed through the writing of “herbals,” which, simply defined, refer to books containing the names, descriptions, and medical virtues of plants. Although the term did not come into use until the beginning of the sixteenth century, medical botany works had been produced in ancient Egypt, Sumeria, and China. One of the earliest of these is the Papyrus Ebers, which is dated to about 1550 BC but was thought to have originated 5–25 centuries earlier. More than simply providing a record of medicinal plant use, the herbals, because of their immense importance to physicians and merchants, were among the most important works to be put into print and provide a literal history of printing itself.Of the ancient herbals, one stands out among all others as the most influential of medical works and remained the authoritative source of pharmacy from its origin in the first century AD to 1500 years later—De Materia Medica of Greek physician and herbalist Pedanios