Ancient Egyptian herbal wines-articolo

Chemical analyses of ancient organics absorbed into pottery jars

from the beginning of advanced ancient Egyptian culture, ca. 3150

B.C., and continuing for millennia have revealed that a range of

natural products—specifically, herbs and tree resins—were dispensed

by grape wine. These findings provide chemical evidence

for ancient Egyptian organic medicinal remedies, previously only

ambiguously documented in medical papyri dating back to ca. 1850

B.C. They illustrate how humans around the world, probably for

millions of years, have exploited their natural environments for

effective plant remedies, whose active compounds have recently

begun to be isolated by modern analytical techniques.