During the human era and later in the Middle Ages, apothecaries were the main centers of pharmacy. In these shops, apothecaries made medicines for various pains and diseases by combining plants, oils and minerals.
With the development of chemistry in the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists were able to extract and identify the active compounds of plants. For example:
Morphine was extracted from the poppy plant.
Salicin was isolated from the bark of the willow tree, which was later produced in the form of aspirin.
A medicine to strengthen the heart was obtained from the foxglove plant (Digitalis).
This period was the beginning of the era of modern pharmacy. But the interesting thing is that the roots of all these medicines lay in nature and medicinal plants.
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