Herbal Entrepreneurship Flashcards
What is the origin of medicine in Greek Mythology?
the centaur Chiron created medicine and as the ages progressed, he instructed both gods and mortals in its art and application. He raised and taught Apollo, Achilles, Jason, and Asclepius among gods, demigods and heroes, teaching them the practice of medicine; at first immortal, he traded this gift for mortality after sustaining a wound caused by one of Heracles’ shafts so that he could find rest in death (Grimal, 1965). Chiron became known for this reason as the “wounded healer,” his story unfolding in the life patterns of those who find his namesake planet in their astrological charts (Reinhart, 2010).
who are the greek divinities of medicine?
Chiron (first developed and taught the system of
healing)
Appolo (Further developed the healing arts, both a god
of healing and of pestulance symoblizing the
dual nature of medicine)
Artimus (Sister of Appolo, goddes of the war, and
midwivery, called on for swift delivery, or swift
death in case of complications)
Asclepius (Son of Appollo, most famous physician,
brought dead back to life using madusa’s
blood, -which lead to him being killed by zues
for fear that he was upsetting the natural
order, associated with the sleep temples)
Hygieia (daughter of Asclepius, symbolized as a snake.
symbol of renewal and rejuvenation, as in a
snake shedding its skin)
Panaceia (All healing)
Aceso (wound healing)
Laso (goddes of cures and remedies)
Eileithiyia (goddess of childbirth, labor pains, and midwives),
Telesphorus (demigod of convalescence and recuperation)
What are the three medical symbols inherited from greek mythology?
The bowel of Hygieia
The rod of Asclepius
The caduceus.
What was the origin of disease in ancient greece?
Pandora opened the box from which pestilance and disease was released on the world.
What did the ancient greecks see as the cure of disease?
The etiology of disease was seen as being caused by the gods, and therefore the cure was also seen as coming from the gods. One needed to procure the favour of the gods in order
How did Alcmaeon of Croton change the idea or understanding of the etiology of disease?
disease as a part of nature and subject to the same natural laws that ruled the rest of the cosmos. He regarded health as dependent on the equilibrium of bodily forces, and disease on the supremacy of any one force, another idea that later reemerged in theories of humoralism (Longrigg, 1997).
What is the Hippocratic corpus?
offers advice on a range of diseases, provides case studies, and in some cases declares public manifestos (Nutton, 1996). Some works, including the Oath, The Physician, Law, Precepts, and Decorum, established ethics and codes of behavior that defined the physician’s role as healer and member of civil society (Longrigg, 1997)
With whom did the concepts of ‘treating disease by opposites’, ‘vix medicatrix naturae’ and the ‘clasification of diseases orginate’?
Hippocrates
What was the first text to be devoid of the idea that disease was caused by the gods?
The Hippocratic Corpus is the first medical text free of all religious or supernatural influence, and dependent entirely on rationalism and natural explanations for disease
Where does the theory of the 4 humours come from?
Hippocrates developed the theory, which he based on the phillosophy of the 4 elements put forth by the pythagoreans.
what are the qualities of the 4 elements?
qualities: air was warm and moist, water cold and moist, fire warm and dry, and earth cold and dry.
what are the primary four humours?
The primary four humors are blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.
What were the primary influences on the four humours?
seasons, food, sleep, lifestyle.
