Herbal Cures are a traditional medicinal & folk medicine practice based on the use of plants and
plant extracts. Herbal Remedies are also known as botanical medicine, medical herbalism, herbal
medicine, herbology, and phytotherapy. Sometimes herbal medicine includes fungi and bee products,
as well as minerals, shells and certain animal parts.
People on all continents have used hundreds to thousands of indigenous plants for treatment of
ailments since prehistoric times.Medicinal herbs were found in the personal effects of an
"ice man", whose body was frozen in the Swiss Alps for more than 5,300 years, which appear to
have been used to treat the parasites found in his intestines.
