Cathryn Plant Museum
Cathryn Plant Museum
PLANT AND HUMAN HEALTH
Before the creation of modern medicine, People had no choice but to look for the help of natural plants to alleviate the pain of diseases. Although eating plants did not cure diabetes (thirst, spleen disease), malaria (cold and heat, ambrosia), or many other diseases, we cannot deny that plants have some role in alleviating diseases. We can perhaps think about this issue the other way around. It is known in modern times that diabetes and gout are diseases of affluence and diet is the main way to manage these disease, which means that our diet is a non-negligible cause of these diseases.
Plants can be said to be nature's chemists. Compared with animals, they have formed a unique way of survival and evolution in the past hundreds of millions of years. Most of our biomedical research...
Modern technology has proven that plants have medicinal effects. There are countless examples of this. For instance, Artemisinin of Artemisia Annua, Tansy Ketone of Salvia Niltiorrhiza, Centella As...
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