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Egyptians Folklore and Healthcare Influences from Ancient Times to…

- - - - Medical texts for references for cures ( Mark, 2017)
- - - - Simple Cures
        
        Chronic bad breath: Chewing a gumball of honey, cinnamon, myrrh, frankincense, and pignon (Mark, 2017)
        
        Opium: Anesthetic (Mark, 2017)
        
        Epilepsy: Camphor (Murrell & Brazier, 2018)
        
        Bad breath: Mint, caraway (Murrell & Brazier, 2018)
        
        Digestive problems: Juniper, mint, garlic, and sandalwood (Murrell & Brazier, 2018)
        
        Pain: Thyme (Murrell & Brazier, 2018)
        
        Burns and skin disease: Aloe (Murrell & Brazier, 2018)
        
        Asthma: Honey and milk, sesame, frankincense (Murrell & Brazier, 2018)
        
        Swollen Gums: Cumin, incense, and onion (Murrell & Brazier 2018)
        
        Infection: Honey, moldy bread, and copper salts could prevent dirt infections in healing burns (Pećanac et al., 2013).
        
        Mint: to stop vomiting or Mustard seeds to start (Murrell & Brazier, 2018)
    - - The whole plant, or its fruit, leaves, juice, or root are used.
        and are different species such as: acacia, anise, barley, cassia, castor bean, coriander, cucumber, cumin, date, fennel, fig, mulberry, garlic, gourd, juniper, leek, lettuce, lotus, peas, poppy seeds, saffron, sunflower, styrax, terebinth, wheat, willow buds, white thistle, and wormwood (Metwaly et al. 2021)
      - Minerals and metals in the Egyptian pharmacopeia included antimony, alum, carbon from charred wood, copper, feldspar, iron oxide, limestone, red ochre, sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, salt, stibnite, sulphur, and possibly arsenical compound (Metwaly et al., 2021)
        
        Minerals and metals are used for local mild astringent or antiseptic action in cases of boils, felons, and burns, or antimony sulfide for bilharziasis, sulfur for scabies, calamine for its soothing effect, yellow ochre hydrated oxide of iron used in the anemia of ankylostoma, red ochre natural oxide of iron, to combat hemorrhage, green copper ore against eye inflammation, nubian ochre was used in an antidiabetic remedy and to fix a loose tooth (Metwaly et al., 2021)
      - Animal-derived drugs have been described; animal products such as urine, eggs, feces, or milk in addition to animal structural components such as blood, bone, meat, bone marrow, bile, liver, spleen, and skin (Metwaly et al., 2021).
        
        The liver was consumed to prevent grey hair and to treat night blindness. Fat and grease from different animals are mentioned in various prescriptions, sometimes for internal use and other times topically as a treatment to make an ointments. Goose fat was a treatment to remove pain and used for relaxation (Metwaly et al., 2021).
        
        Cow, goose, donkey, man, cat, pig, mouse, goat, sheep, bat, hippopotamus, antelope, dog, insect, ostrich, pigeon, pelican, raven, frog, lizard, snake, tortoise and crocodile, animal sources are included invertebrates (beetles and worms) and fish were used (Metwaly et al., 2021).