Belief disease spirits driven out by foul-smelling and bad-tasting medicine. [1] Belief in plant remedies. [2] Cocoa, quinine, oil, wine, opium, castor oil among earliest. [3] Origin in magic. [4] Under the shamans. [5]
Good Samaritan used oil and wine as. [6] Government refrains from interfering with medicine in continental nation. [7] Merry heart does good like medicine. [8] Refrain from despising material means of healing. [9]