How
the "drugs" look like in the ancient times? How the ancient doctors make
they remedies and cure the diseases? Do the old medication have any value in
modern medicine today other than historical?
Old remedies made
by ancient doctors using formulas given here may look strange, but never the
less, doctors employed those remedies for
medication to cure diseases and they have
success in some cases.
Are you interesting to see some of the formulas that are used to cure
various diseases ? Can some ideas be applied even today or the ancient
formulas are unworthy against modern medicine? Maybe is intriguing to look
at ancient
manuscript just to see how it looks and what ingredients are used
to make remedies for medication. Here you can even find the old cosmetics prescriptions
among
ancient medication used to cure different ill conditions such as lung diseases, wounds,
tumors etc. off
course, we kept old names for diseases, as the way by ancient doctors indexed the
disease. Ancient recipes
given here are between one to
four hundred years
old, and most of them are very rare examples of the remedy formula written in Latin language
by famous doctor of that time. All
ancient formulation are translated and are given with explanation
(obsolete and potential poisonous remedies are clearly marked) as well as detailed
description of the ingredients and drawings of plant used. cosmetics
formulas are given with detailed explanation of method and technology of
making cream and ointment.
If you
are interested in old medicine and ancient medication techniques go
here
to see some examples of old formulation.
This is not, off course, an invitation
to actually experiment and use these recipes and old medication formula, some of them are quite
obsolete formulation. Never try to make an remedy if you not well trained and
educated to do
so, and never experiment with self healing, or even worst, to cure others
with self made remedies if you are not a medical expert or licensed doctor.
Medical formulation presented in this site are not recommended
for use today, although most of the given formula of remedies are not
harmful for health. Never forget that the authors of theses ancient medical
recipes have different knowledge of human organism and the principles of the
diseases than today medical science, in fact, beliefs of the ancient doctors
in many diseases and principles of medication, cure and actions of the remedy is
completely wrong. Note that the some of ancient recipes and cosmetics
contain poisonous ingredients, for instance salt of heavy metals, which is always marked at explanation.
Some of the medication
contain ingredients who are quite obsolete to use, which it may be seen into
given example of the one old remedy
(balm for the contusion). In the ancient
times was a belief that, for instance, Sulfur has powerful qualities in
different diseases, today is proven that is not the case. Modern
medicine
use Sulfur for medication as remedy ingredient only in some dermatological diseases. Also,
you may notice into other recipes that one of the most often used ingredient is extract from
Papaver Somniferum (Opium Poppy), which is considered to be a poison.
Many of old medical remedies contain extract or the seed of Opium Poppy
since ancient doctors generally believed that remedy made with this
ingredient are powerful for medication and cure for diseases. Today
use of opium for the medication purposes are very limited and under strict
law conditions. If you want any assistance or help for better
understanding of the ancient formulation and cosmetics formulation feel free to contact us at
hermanb@oldpreparaton.com we try to find an answer as soon as possible.
