TRADITIONAL MEDITERRANEAN HERBALISM
Traditional Mediterranean Medicine (MTM)
like all Ancient Medical Systems, its apparent complexity is based
on the simple and intuitive concept of Analogy.
In the industrialized West the traditional systems have been irreparably damaged or dispersed and the parts deriving from the dismemberment of these systems have survived in some professions and by now marginalized figures, but it still lives on both in the rural world and in the so-called "alternative, holistic, complementary, etc, etc” asthe Traditional Herbalist.
These terms that we can summarize, perhaps using more understandable words, in the concept of seeking a remedy"ad personam"and non-generalist that exploits the self-regulation capacity of our organism (homeostasis) in relation to stressful events on the various organs from which conditions unfavorable to our health can originate.
Life, like living beings, has been observed for a long time in the search for the simplest and most handy answers according to the methods, means, sensitivities, scientific nature and knowledge of the various eras.
Thanks to the knowledge of modern man, the traditional herbalist does nothing but research and propose the natural union and complementarity betweenancient science(wrongly considered less worthy, magical, fraudulent and mendacious) ethe modern onewhich goes hand in hand.
All this can only promote multidisciplinary interaction work for well-being at 360° of the person.
This so-called alternative concept, which in fact should alternate with the more modern one, was and is the so-calledVis Medicatrix Naturaeof Hippocratic memory that is theHealing Power of Naturesimultaneous and inclusive of the three realms:animal, vegetable and mineral.Equally inescapable are the universally recognized laws of science such as, for example, mathematics, physics and biology.
in the Mediterranean basingoing back to the Sumerians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Arabs, Greeks and Roman Empire, man has codified the surrounding environment by observing the sky, the Universe, the Macro and Micro Cosmos, man, animals, vegetables according to an analogical concept (digitization was unthinkable) formulating over timethe theory of the four qualities(hot, cold, dry, humid) from whose union iFour Elementsof our culture:Fire, Water, Air and Earth.
Modern instruments could not, trivially, exist in antiquity but that did not mean that at the time there were dozens and dozens of doctors (at the same time philosophers, architects, musicians, engineers, etc.) still famous today for their writings which fortunately they have come down to us despite the more or less veiled desire to "burn" them in favor of the Enlightenment.
The work of herbalist today is absolutely not in contrast with theofficial medicine,on the contrary, it should interact where there is a need for an effective and safe search for a“rebalancing”far from misunderstandings eddrug interactions.