Comparative Botano-therapeutics. Traditional Medicinal Use in the Far-Eastern and Greece

      Аннотация: This is a comparative study on the pharmaceutical use of botany. In China the description ‘make the body light’ is frequently used, but in Greece ‘reduce weight’. The former does not necessarily mean ‘reducing weight’, but frequently ‘improving functions of the body’. In Greece, however, a matter of concern is actually to reduce weight, as disease mostly originated in excess rather than deficiency. In this way, botany shows more or less deviances in medicinal application. Understanding of the medicinal efficiency of Artemisia shows definitely a contradiction, as it raises flesh in China while it reduces flesh in Greece. In my opinion, the opposite use of Artemisia may originate from different living environments. And in China Cinnamomum as well as Glycyrrhiza have been used as medicinal materials to protect or lower Energy, but in Greece just as a spice which came from foreign lands. Furthermore, Angelica was also much used in China as a medicine, while it was not in Greece even though it was grown everywhere. The analysis is to show that the human knowledge is not given pre-conditionally as an objective and absolute truth, but pragmatically based on practical use.

Ключевые слова: Artemisia, Chamomile, China, Chrysanthemum, Gingko Biloba, ginseng, Glycyrrhiza, Greece, Korea, traditional therapeutic botany, Konyza (Inula), Jujube (ziziphus), Ramnos, Hedyosmon emeron, Kalaminthe orine, Paionia. Astragalos, Angelica, Ligusticum (root), Allium sativum (garlic), Zingiber (officinale), Cinnamomum (verum)