OF ROOTS, BARKS, PARACETAMOL AND EDTA

Abstract

Traditional native medicine has existed throughout the world from time immemorial. Early humans had sought cures for illness by using plants, animal parts, and mineral and as a species have survived. It can even be said that the forest, the home to our forebears, served as a veritable pharmaceutical depot as well. Physical evidence of use of herbal remedies goes back some 60,000 years to a burial site of a Neanderthal man uncovered in 1960.