Ancient Egypt (3300BC to 525BC) is where we first see the dawn of what, today, we call "medical care". The Egyptian civilization was the first great civilization on this planet. Egyptians thought ...

Yet traditional medicine remains a vibrant part of the state health care system. Most Chinese hospitals have a ward devoted to ancient cures. Citing traditional medicine’s potential to lower ...

One such remedy that has gained immense popularity is Ashwagandha, a powerful herb with deep roots in traditional Indian medicine. But does it really work better than conventional medicine? Science ...

Of the three systems of medicine which have come down to us the most ancient is that ascribed to Atreya, a physician who is assigned by Dr. Hoernle to the sixth century B.C.; the system ascribed ...

Ancient Rome was a flourishing civilization ... Public health facilities were encouraged throughout the empire. Roman medicine grew out of what military doctors learnt and demanded.

India's dense tapestry of ancient medicine, specifically Ayurveda, has been tapping the healing powers of native herbs for centuries. Ancient remedies, hitherto part of everyday existence ...

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Kristi Upson-Saia and comedian Stu Goldsmith to explore the strange world of ancient medicine. The most powerful Roman you've never heard of – Agrippina the ...

There were very few doctors in the Middle Ages. Training to be a doctor could take years of study and, at the time, there were very few universities. The main European universities in the Middle ...

From March 20 to 22, the "Silk Road Medical Dialogue: Exchange Between Ancient Chinese Medicine and Sri Lankan Traditional Medicine" series of events took place in Colombo, Gampaha, Kandy ...