Good day dear Hive community, first of all I hope that you all had a great day and a positive start to the new weekend! In my contribution, I have decided to go into ancient Greece and would like to bring you a legendary personality a little more closer.
When I have wrote something about plants in the past and talked about the medical effect, the name of the well-known doctor Hippocrates has often fallen, who is also considered one of the founders of medicine and in this article, I would like to go into more detail about him and have created some artworks with artificial intelligence in order to visualize him better. Ancient Greece as well as Egypt is often regarded as one of the origins of alchemy and also in this context Hippocrates often occurs and is considered a pioneer of alchemy and he can also be regarded as one of the fathers of medicine or alchemy and he has dealt intensively with medicinal plants and taught humanity a lot of understanding towards nature. He was even then already of the opinion that most diseases are due to nutrition and he often gave the simple advice to eat healthy and to refrain from other things besides light food or water which harm the body and he thought rather preventively in this respect and tried to avoid the development of diseases and from him also comes the famous quote "Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.", but should there still be diseases, he swore on medicinal plants as well as other healing methods. He was generally also of the opinion that the self-healing powers of the body must be in the foreground and for this it also needed the right diet and with this way of thinking he has strongly influenced medicine to this day and perhaps it has now become clear why he has gained such a high priority in medicine and is still appreciated by numerous doctors today and in his time Hippocrates was considered far ahead and was considered a pioneer in many respects.
The old knowledge about the use of plants for medical purposes, which is also considered the predecessor of today's medicine and is referred to by the alchemists as spagyrics or plant alchemy, was very strongly influenced by Ancient Greece who in their time were heavily concerned with the effects and toxic properties of various plants and did a lot of research in this area. Hippocrates was very progressive in this field and carried out a lot of research and is therefore also considered one of the founders of science and at that time medicinal plants and sometimes their effects were associated with mythology and in this regard there are numerous legends from ancient Greece about the origin, effects or application of plants. Hippocrates himself also comes from a family who belonged to the race of the Asclepius and the ancestor of them is also associated with the famous god of medicine Asclepius and if you want to learn more about this god I can recommend visiting this post here where I have already gone into more detail. The ancient Greeks were also often of the opinion that the diseases come from the gods and only they would be able to cure them and so it was certainly to his advantage that he came from a family that was associated with the god of healing art. Hippocrates was born on the island of Kos and it is assumed that he had lived between 460 and 370 BC and he traveled a lot and healed people in different places and traveled a lot in Asia Minor and Greece. He already learned a lot from his father and grandfather at that time when it comes to medicine and it is assumed that he had some children who continued his tradition and during his time he published numerous writings where he captured his collected knowledge.
Thanks a lot for taking the time to read through my post and I hope you like it and can learn something new about greek history!
