Herbal medicine, sometimes herbalism, botanical medicine, or as Herbology, plant use of a wide variety of forms mentioned, for their therapeutic value. Plant production and plant chemical compounds on various body movements and to prevent or treat disease or promote health and well-being is used with. 

A brief history of herbal remedies. 

People, and even the Neanderthals, they are used in the treatment of diseases of the plants have at least ten thousand years, probably longer again. 

And use of herbs originated in China, despite the first written accounts, all other civilizations of the ancient world for their own illnesses as plants were using natural remedies. Western herbal medicine and ancient Greece famous doctors like Hippocrates and Galen are based. 

17 to 15 The most popular time for herbalism in Europe in the centuries had. Herbal medicine is still relatively today, primarily because the fact is considered harmless because of the natural are popular. 

Theory of how it works:

Herbal treatments have been around for so long, and many cultures, is believed there are many ways to work. Many explanations lie in ancient cultures thought of the mystical. Some plants look for him to treat what is available gives an indication believe; plant and full body, this physical similarity between the "Doctrine of Signatures" to be known as the treatment of heart heart-shaped facility will be used to treat problems, for example. 

The Middle Ages on, the effects observed by many practitioners have tried to classify herbal remedies. This modern scientific approach to evidence collection is closer. 

Mystical approach to the theory of Eastern herbal medicine still depends on when they contain plant materials for the West tends to use herbs, mixing and matching them to traditional medicine, no modern drugs.