Many of our traditional medicines come from plants that grow wild throughout the world.Folk medicine keeps the health of the body by using medicines taken from surrounding plants since 1 for making medicine can be 2 everywhere, one can 3 folk medicine in any place of the world.They provide the basic ingredients(成分)that were used in the preparation of medicines and remedies(治疗方法).
The practice of folk medicine 4 all the way back to the time of early man when both man and animal used plants in order to 5 healthy.It is not 6 , for example, to see an animal suck the sap of some plant after being 7 by a poisonous snake. 8 animals seem to have their 9 gift for knowing which plant will 10 what illness, man probably learned how to 11 for himself by animal watching.
Man 12 learned other things from animals.He observed that wild animals when sick remained quiet and rest, depending upon nature's remedies(治疗方法)for 13 well-the medicine in plants and pure air.He saw that an animal with a 14 could often be 15 resting in a cool place, eating nothing and often drinking a lot until the fever was gone.