Comparative Botano-therapeutics

This is a comparative study on the pharmaceutical use of botany. In China the description ‘make the body light’ is frequently used but in Greece ‘reduce weight’. The former does not necessarily mean ‘reducing weight’ but frequently ‘improving functions of the body’. In Greece however a matter of concern is actually to reduce weight as disease mostly originated in excess rather than deficiency. In this way botany shows more or less deviances in medicinal application. Understanding of the medicinal efficiency of Artemisia shows definitely a contradiction as it raises flesh in China while it reduces flesh in Greece. In my opinion the opposite use of Artemisia may originate from different living environments. And in China Cinnamomum as well as Glycyrrhiza have been used as medicinal materials to protect or lower Energy but in Greece just as a spice which came from foreign lands. Furthermore Angelica was also much used in China as a medicine while it was not in Greece even though it was grown everywhere. The analysis is to show that the human knowledge is not given pre-conditionally as an objective and absolute truth but pragmatically based on practical use.