Medicine, A Boon For Both Patients And Investors

Medicines play one of the most significant role in the healthcare industry.

Medicines are required generally by everyone. The huge range of medicines make it one of the most commonly sought item. The existence of medicine could be traced back to thousands of years, and during those days it was considered as an art. It also had connections to the religious and philosophical beleifs of local culture and tradition. According to Steve Richards, a pharmacists “Medicine has a long existence with the roots deeply growing since the ancient times. Medicine had a significant role in the culture and tradition. For instance, a man would apply herbs and say prayers for healing, or an ancient philosopher and physician would apply bloodletting according to the theories of humorism. In recent centuries, since the advent of modern science, most medicines have become a combination of art and science both”.

Modern day medicine has profound roots in the ancient Greece. On the one hand most Greeks believed in a god of healing called Asclepius. People who were ill, used to make sacrifices or offerings to the God. They then used to sleep overnight in his temple. They believed that the god would visit them in their sleep i.e. in their dreams and when they woke up they would be healed. The Greeks also knew that diet and exercise and keeping clean were important for health.