The First Drug Appeared During 140-130 BC

The First Drug Appeared During 140-130 BC.
Archeologists investigating an old-fashioned shipwreck off the coastline of Tuscany bang they have stumbled upon a rare find: a tightly closed tin container with well-preserved nostrum dating back to about 140-130 BC. A multi-disciplinary gang analyzed fragments of the green-gray tablets to decode their chemical, mineralogical and botanical composition purchase. The results propose a peek into the complexity and sophistication of ancient therapeutics.

So "The fact-finding highlights the continuity from then until now in the use of some substances for the treatment of sensitive diseases," said archeologist and lead researcher Gianna Giachi, a chemist at the Archeological Heritage of Tuscany, in Florence, Italy. "The scrutinize also shows the woe that was taken in choosing complex mixtures of products - olive oil, pine resin, starch - in send to get the desired healthy clout and to help in the preparation and application of medicine".

The medicines and other materials were found together in a miserly space and are thought to have been originally packed in a strongbox that seems to have belonged to a physician, said Alain Touwaide, controlled director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, in Washington, DC Touwaide is a associate of the multi-disciplinary team that analyzed the materials. The tablets contained an iron oxide, as well as starch, beeswax, pine resin and a gallimaufry of plant-and-animal-derived lipids, or fats.

Touwaide said botanists on the enquiry pair discovered that the tablets also contained carrot, radish, parsley, celery, unpopulated onion and cabbage - unembellished plants that would be found in a garden. Giachi said that the constitution and shape of the tablets suggest they may have been used to treat the eyes, possibly as an eyewash. But Touwaide, who compared findings from the analysis to what has been accepted from ancient texts about medicine, said the metallic component found in the tablets was undeniably used not just for eyewashes but also to treat wounds.

The uncovering is evidence of the effectiveness of some natural medicines that have been used for literally thousands of years. "This tidings potentially represents essentially several centuries of clinical trials. If logical medicine is utilized for centuries and centuries, it's not because it doesn't work".