- •Theme 4 Medicinal Plants
- •In addition to the use in the developing world, herbal medicine is used in industrialized countries by alternative medicine practitioners such as homeopaths.
- •Interesting facts.
- •Task 1. Learn the following words by heart:
- •Task 4. Mach English sentences to their Russian equivalents:
- •Task 5. Translate the given sentences into Russian, close your book and translate then back into English:
- •Task 6. Retell the text.
Task 4. Mach English sentences to their Russian equivalents:
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Task 5. Translate the given sentences into Russian, close your book and translate then back into English:
The collection and the use of medicinal plans began many thousands years ago.
Such names of drugs as hemlock, gentian and others were mentioned by Hippocrates in his book about drugs.
The word drug comes from the Dutch word “droog”, which means “dried plant”.
The pharmaceuticals that are currently available to physicians were used as herbal drugs many years ago.
These herbal remedies are opium, morphine, codeine, aspirin, digitalis, quinine, etc.
80 percent of the world’s population presently uses herbal medicine for some aspect of primary health care.
Herbal medicine is used both in developing countries and industrialized world.
Alternative medicine practitioners all over the world consult population and give their recommendations on the use of medicinal plants.
Today many drug plants are cultivated and many are collected from fields and woods.
Some drugs are made of fruits, leaves, roots, flowers, seeds of the plants.