| Our present day and age offers a variety of | | | | were believed to have been caused by these |
| technological development designed for almost | | | | channels becoming blocked and were medicated |
| each position of our lives, like in the case of | | | | with laxatives. The earliest noted medical doctors |
| medicine and our health. Although at times many | | | | in the world is Hesy-Ra who performed |
| believe it is needless to be knowledgeable in the | | | | treatments in ancient Egypt; and the lady |
| aspects of human life matters, it is however | | | | Peseshet, is perhaps the first lady doctor in |
| important to know how it all started. For additional | | | | history. |
| awareness and the greater appreciation of these | | | | Ancient Babylonia is perhaps the place of math's |
| developments. | | | | emergence, but this ancient culture also initiated |
| Medicine is like other things whose beginning we | | | | known medical practices. There were two kinds |
| are not aware of, with the exception of | | | | of people who dealt with the medicine in Ancient |
| medically-aware individuals. Illnesses has always | | | | Babylonia, the 'asu' (doctor) and 'dsipu' (exorcist). |
| been one of the major concerns for all living | | | | When a patient was sick, the asu would |
| beings. As early as prehistoric times and in the | | | | administer cream, pills and bandages; but if there |
| ancient civilizations, infections have then wrought | | | | was no sign of recovery, exorcism was then |
| havoc on humans so primeval were instigated to | | | | executed to rid the body of any curse. If the |
| look for medications. | | | | patient is seriously ailed, operation even of the |
| Prehistoric Medicine integrated plant lives in | | | | greatly sensitive part such as the eyes was |
| treating ailments, which we now acknowledge as | | | | completed. It was indeed excellent of the |
| herbalism. Priests, Shamans and medical men of | | | | knowledge held by the Babylonians, they were |
| that time period also used animal parts and | | | | keen to the mechanisms of the human and animal |
| minerals as an integral part of rituals asking the | | | | body and learned about the pulse and blood's |
| spirits to cure their sicknesses. These people are | | | | circulation. |
| similar to the medical doctors of now. | | | | Written 3000 years ago was a book about |
| Considered highly advanced for that time is the | | | | Ancient Chinese medicine documenting that the |
| practice of medicine in Ancient Egypt. While 'magic' | | | | preserving health and life's nourishment must be |
| was mainly consisted in medications, the ancient | | | | done before a person even gets sick. Which was |
| Egyptian physicians discovered medical knowledge | | | | the way of the ancient Chinese's healing that is |
| became responsible for its great reputation of the | | | | focused on preventions for the healthy instead of |
| civilization. Some information concerning human | | | | on the sick. The technique of analysis was |
| anatomy was identified by the Egyptians such as | | | | established on an 'Outside-to-Inside' process |
| in their classic mummification process. Egyptian | | | | where the internal conditions are inferred from |
| physicians already had the idea about the pulse | | | | observing outside facts. The equilibrium of yin and |
| and its connection to the heart. They developed | | | | yang, alleged by the ancient Chinese healing, |
| the concept of channels that transported oxygen, | | | | makes the completeness and synchronization in |
| water and our blood around our body by | | | | the body. An imbalance of our life values |
| associating the Nile River to the body. Sicknesses | | | | therefore caused illnesses. |