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Ancient Remedies for Modern Healing

By Amelie Roth
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By Amelie Roth
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Ancient Remedies for Modern Healing explores one of the oldest and most complete medical texts in human history: the Ebers Papyrus of ancient Egypt. Dating to around 1550 BCE, this remarkable document records hundreds of treatments used by Egyptian physicians for pain, infection, digestion, wounds, inflammation, and everyday illness. Many of these remedies relied on plants and substances still familiar today, including honey, garlic, willow bark, frankincense, myrrh, castor oil, coriander, ...