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 A mushroom was found within the personal property of Ötzi the Iceman, whose body was frozen within the Ötztal Alps for over five,000 years. The mushroom was in all probability used against whipworm. In ancient Sumeria, many medicative plants together with myrrh and narcotic ar listed on clay tablets. the traditional Egyptian Ebers Papyrus lists over 800 plant medicines like succulent, cannabis, oilseed, garlic, juniper, and mandrake. From history to the current, Ayurvedic medication as documented within the Atharva sacred text, the Rig sacred text and therefore the Sushruta Vedic literature has used many pharmacologically active herbs and spices like turmeric, that contains curcumin. The Chinese assemblage, the Shennong mount Cao Jing records plant medicines like chaulmugra for infectious disease, ephedra, and hemp. This was enlarged within the Tang dynasty Yaoxing Lun. within the fourth century before Christ, Aristotle's pupil Theophrastus  wrote the primary systematic biology text, Historia plantarum. In around sixty AD, the Greek doctor Pedanius Dioscorides, operating for the Roman army, documented over one thousand recipes for medicines exploitation over 600 medicative plants in Diamond State medical specialty. The book remained the authoritative reference on herbalism for over 1500 years, into the seventeenth century