Year: 2022
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Egyptologists confirms the use of various narcotics ranging from practical daily use (mood elevation) to religious application (incense offered to the gods), as well as widespread medical use in the treatment of various ailments. Ancient Egyptian physicians were undoubtedly aware of the fact that Egyptian blue lotus, hemp, mandrake, poppy, datura, Egyptian henbane2 & belladonna were painkillers. There is no unequivocal evidence that they knew the chemical effects of the narcotics in each plant and the differences between their constituents, but they certainly knew how and when to use them, and experience taught them the almost perfect doses needed as medicine away from their harmful poisonous effect.
Author: Venice Ibrahim Shehatta Attia
Language: English
Topic: History of Medicine Studies
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7154085673
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