Germany Maintains Its Traditional Medicinal Practices, to the Financial and Physiological Benefit of Its People
“The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
This famous quote of inventor and businessman Thomas Edison may strike us as prescient given the explosion of information about the lifestyle factors of disease. In truth, preventive medicine was practiced in antiquity. The ancient Chinese, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all had what we would call preventive medicine.
Virtually every ancient civilization possessed early herbal medical knowledge and applied techniques to enhance and sustain health. Much of this knowledge has been lost, although there are some researchers who seek recover what has been forgotten….