HERBS OF THE MOTHERLAND"HERBS AND AFRICA AFRICA --A BRIEF HISTORY The ancient usage of medicinal herbs was established long before Menes combined the lower kingdoms of Egypt in 3200 B.C. The predynastic cultures of the Amratian, Badarian (cultural ruins found beneath those of Amratians), Gerzean (extension of Amratian---3600 B.C.) and the NOK cultures had medicinal herbs and drugs. In the Berlin Medical Papyrus it is stated that medicinal schools were established long before Egypt. The Nile Valley Africans of Egypt came from the southern direction of Abyssinia between 600 to 3000 B.C. This migration of peoples, knowledge, plants and medicinal herbs caused a concentration of information. The First Dynasty (3000 B.C.) was ruled by King Mina, then Kings Narmer and Aha. Their relics and coprolith studies (fossil food remains and remains of food in the intestinal tract of mummies) indicate both a primarily raw food diet and medicinal herbs. Various African people such as the Nubians and Hamites of the second cataract (curves in the river) and the Egyptian of the first cataract initiated a cluster of herbal knowledge. Imhotep established medicinal herb and drug schools during the regime of Pharaoh Zozer in the 4th Dynastic Era. The medical books produced by Imhotep (20 volumes) spread the allopathic, homeopathic and naturopathic usage of herbs over the continent. His books are presently at Karl Marx University, Liepsig, Germany, where they were given the name of the European who stole them, Ebers and are called the Ebers Papyrus. Historically, he is a science bandit - technology thief. In any case the rulers of the Fourth Dynasty (3360 B.C.) were Seneferu II and King Asa. It was this dynasty that invaded the Sudan for gold and slaves, and Sinai for copper. With the invasions, the cultural knowledge and herb knowledge were exchanged. Also, medicinal flower essences coupled with medicinal herbs were found in the tomb of Khufu, a ruler during the dynasty. Today's African flower essence treatments are called the Bach Flowers Remedies: they are credited to the European who discovered an already established African science. The fertile crescent of northeast Africa possessed medical schools and indigenous herbal medicine that was and is considered exotic. the Nubians had developed the medicinal herb and drug treatment system of homeopathy. Today, the Europeans credit Hahneman, a German with this treatment modality. The first through the Thirteenth Dynasties are considered the Old Age Empires. These dynasties had good holistic health. Mummified remains and coprolite studies indicate that their teeth were cavity-free, and that they were free of bone disease, digestive tract illness, had a natural food diet, and used herbal medicine. The mummies from the dynastic eras after the Thirteenth Dynasty have indications of appendicitis, ulcers, mastoid disease and battle wounds. This indicates that health began to deteriorate as the diet became more concentrated in cooked foods and grains coupled with disease spurred by increased trading with Europeans. In addition, the domestication of plants caused the nutritional value of plants to decrease. Domestication of plants requires that the plants be taken out of their natural environment and placed on plant plantations. Plantations for plants is a synthetic societal environment. This environment causes a nutritional alteration of plants. Consequently, it changes the health of plant eaters. This domestication or processing of plants is unholistic as cultivated soil becomes drained of nutrients and limited in nutritional growth response. Unholistic cultivation of plants causes a people that eat domesticated plants to become domesticated and limited to a few nutrients and this limits the range of behavior. In other words, you are what you eat. Eating slave plants causes a slave mentality. A distorted picture of plant slaving can be found in The Origin of African Plaint Domestication by Jack Horlan. In this book, the alteration process is delineaed. Many valuable herbs were destroyed at the end of the Thirteenth Dynasty. European Aryans and Semitics (White/non-Europeans) invaded and destroyed Egyptian cities, raped women, stole gold and precious healiing crystals. Timaus was a ruler during this invasion period." Source: Book - "African holistic Health" - by Dr. Imhotep Llaila Afrika |
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