The earliest Chinese, Indians, Egyptians, Babylonians, and Native Americans were practitioners of herbalism.
The list of medicinal herbs of Shen Nung’s Pen Ts’ao or Shennong Ben Cao Jing (c. 3000 B.C.), is the first one we know of. It is a Chinese herbal that is perhaps a collection of an even older unwritten history.
The list of medicinal herbs of Shen Nung’s Pen Ts’ao or Shennong Ben Cao Jing (c. 3000 B.C.), is the first one we know of. It is a Chinese herbal that is perhaps a collection of an even older unwritten history.