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==History==
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[[File:Folio Materia Medica Dioscurides Met 13.152.6 (cropped).jpg|thumb|A physician preparing an elixir, from an [[Arabic]] version of [[Dioscorides]]'s pharmacopoeia, 1224]]
Archaeological evidence indicates that the use of [[medicinal plant]]s dates back to the [[Paleolithic]] age, approximately 60,000 years ago. Written evidence of herbal remedies dates back over 5,000 years to the [[Sumer]]ians, who compiled lists of plants. Some ancient cultures wrote about plants and their medical uses in books called ''[[herbal]]s''. In ancient Egypt, herbs are mentioned in [[Egyptian medical papyri]], depicted in tomb illustrations, or on rare occasions found in medical jars containing trace amounts of herbs. In ancient Egypt, the [[Ebers papyrus]] dates from about 1550 BC, and covers more than 700 compounds, mainly of plant origin. The earliest known [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] herbals came from [[Theophrastus]] of Eresos who, in the 4th century BC, wrote in [[Greek language|Greek]] ''[[Historia Plantarum (Theophrastus)|Historia Plantarum]]'', from [[Diocles of Carystus]] who wrote during the 3rd century BC, and from Krateuas who wrote in the 1st century BC. Only a few fragments of these works have survived intact, but from what remains, scholars noted overlap with the Egyptian herbals. Seeds likely used for herbalism were found in archaeological sites of [[Bronze Age]] China dating from the [[Shang dynasty]] (c. 1600–1046 BC). Over a hundred of the 224 compounds mentioned in the ''[[Huangdi Neijing]]'', an early Chinese medical text, are herbs. Herbs were also commonly used in the [[traditional medicine]] of ancient India, where the principal treatment for diseases was diet. ''[[De Materia Medica]]'', originally written in Greek by [[Pedanius Dioscorides]] (c. 40–90 AD) of [[Anazarbus]], [[Cilicia]], a physician and botanist, is one example of herbal writing used over centuries until the 1600s.

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