Herbs History

In the 17th century, the development of science, chemistry and technology together with the introduction of active chemical drugs led to the decline of herbalism, even though folk medicine still existed in the home and small villages. By the end of the 19th and into the 20th centuries, orthodox medicine had pushed homeopathic ( a complementary disease treatment system in which a patient is given minute doses of natural drugs that in larger doses would produce symptoms of the disease itself ) medicine further from the mainstream.