Framed Herb Prints

Herbs are plants that can have different uses. They can be used as a food source, flavor to the meal, medicine for healing different ailments or perfume. There is also a saying that the herb is the friend of physicians and praise of the cooks. Herbs were used even in prehistoric times, as the illustrations of different herbs could be found on some cave paintings. The usage of herbs has been studied through centuries, and there are notes of Chinese herbal medicine, that has its roots from the period of the first century A.D. In Europe, medical properties of herbs were firstly noted in Greece, by Hippocrates, the person that was regarded as “the father of Western medicine”. Hippocrates listed around 400 herbs that could be used by people in different ways.