the Polish pharmacist Enoteus Sedler used it in his book „Analecta Pharmacognostica". Otherwise, there are more names in the world today for this scientific discipline. Thus, in the French speaking area, the term „Materia Medica" is often encountered, and in Germanic countries, pharmaceutical biology. Sometimes this is called the chemistry of plants, chemistry of the drugs, or phytochemicals ([@ref3]). The use of plants in the treatment originates from the distant past. The herbage cultivation skill developed in all nations and has been preserved, somewhere more, somewhere less, as traditional or folk therapy, as popularly called, to this day ([@ref5],[@ref6], [@ref7]). Pharmaceutical activity exists since there is a man. The oldest tribes were dealing with it. ***Old-Slavic nations*** treated the patients with broken hands and feet with the rootinternal medicines, and on the plate are listed the kitchen salt, myrrh, thyme, figs, dew, milk, leather and turtle armor). The peoples of ***Mesopotamia*** knew the culture of figs from which they made wine. Figs juices were used for grooming and coating of drugs. They also raised the onion, which was eaten for hygienic reasons. The flax seeds were used as a cure. Barley was used to prepare beer. Cypress, cedar and oak leaves were also used as a medicine. In ancient Egypt, the cult of respect for the dead and the baptismal process of the dead have developed, which have remained preserved to this day. Written medical documents from old-European medicine are papyruses. They carry the names of the discoverer, the owner or the place where they