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Albert Einstein once eloquently stated “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” Mother Nature has proven time and again to be the best engineer, architect, scientist, and doctor. This fact has not been lost on mankind, and since time immemorial, we have looked to nature for answers to human conditions and diseases. Indeed, our first evidence dates back to preliterary history as long as 50,000 years ago, in archaeological discoveries from a Middle Eastern grave site at Shanidar, Iraq, of a Neanderthal man which contained plant specimens, of which are still used in local traditional medicine. Since then, the use and application of herbal medicine has been recorded in every society from Traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, Yunani, and other cultures in the developing world.DOI: 10.1097/FJC.0000000000001278 - 2022