However these plants may be hybrids, so for this reason they may not be classified as other plants, which is why cultivated plants have their own nomenclature, International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants.
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History.
Close your eyes and take a mental trip back to the early civilizations of mankind, Egypt. Imagine there is a small child that falls into a fire. It has been a long standing tradition in your area that there is "God-like" plant that can cure all. The miracle plant is smashed into a paste and then adhered to the child's wounds. Fast forward centuries later, this plant is now called Aloe Vera. Plants have been used for their medicinal purposes since the beginning of civilizations. Ethnobotany, the study of the relationship between humans and plants. This interdisciplinary branch of science is how man knows so much about the plant based medicinal remedies of ancient civilizations. Ethnobotany is a blend of botany, chemistry, sociology, and history, and because of this botanist are able to paint a picture of the past. However even with ethnobotany, nobody knows exactly where medicinal plants were used for the first time. Surely the search of some remedy was something that occurred simultaneously in all the cultures, fruit of the desire of the man to heal, for magical-religious reasons or because some preparation that provided a great temporary happiness. Knowledge on the medicinal plants, before the birth of writing, were transmitted orally. It is known that the first written text on the use of medicinal plants is about 4000 years old and appears in a clay small board in the Sumerian culture, an antique group of people who lived at the south of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, which would be equivalent to the current Iraq territory. The Egyptians used the principles of the medicinal plants in a systematic and controlled way. More than 700 formulas with plants are known, and the most interesting printed document is the Papyrus of Ebers, from 1700 A.
