Nowadays, we all try to live and to eat as naturally as possible. Therefore, we reject ordinary pills and cures and try to heal with medicines made of plants. It’s believed to be better! It may be, and there might also be some truth in Homer’s saying: “The native land of Egypt is the richest in cure.”

The ancient Egyptians used oil, dough, dates, onions, garlic, linseed, dill, myrrh, opium as well as various minerals like lead salts, antimony and copper. They also used animal meat, brain and blood. All of these “drugs” were administered in milk, wine or beer, or boiled before administering.

For example, infections were treated with moldy bread. Lung diseases were treated with cream, honey mixed with cumin, milk with locusts. They made inhalations, with a cane, absorbing the vapor of a boil in which they mixed dates, resin, myrrh, while the castor seed, well-chewed, then added in beer, was an ordinary laxative.