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The word medicine has been practiced in all languages in one way or another, as pharmacology, pharmacy, etc. The word is Homeric and means “herbal substance”, meaning a plant with some biological action. Homer’s epic poems contain many prescriptive adjectives for medicines, such as beneficial, soothing, and euphoric [1,2]. Herbs already known since antiquity are the original stock of medicines in European medicine. Some of them are used in therapeutics up to modern times [1].
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