From protein-filled meals to the benefits of lentils and intermittent fasting, the Classical world had strong opinions about ...

Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum), also known as holy basil, is a revered herb in Ayurveda and Southeast Asian medicine for its ...

The Germ Theory of Medicine is less than 100 years old, and before this shift in thinking on disease, past humans developed some very interesting ideas around medicine. Interestingly, some of them ...

It’s easy to get caught up in quarks and bosons these days, but picture a time long before labs and particle accelerators, when the ancient ... of so much Western medicine, was one of them. They ...

The idea traces back to ancient Indian medicine. The Ayurvedic tradition ... and phlegm). The humors (the word comes from the Greek chymos, meaning juice or sap) make up all living things.

The concluding passage has Ancient Greek physician Galen smearing a concoction of rancid cheese and bacon fat on the "knotted joyntes" of "a man greatly troubled with the gowte" until "the skynne ...

From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient relatives Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters ...

Koronaios Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 The Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates was the first to use the word hysteria, which derives from the Greek word hysteron (uterus), for an ailment that ...

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...