| Honey and all derivatives of the bee have strong bacteriostatic, healing and antioxidant actions. | |
| Hippocrates (460-360 BC) | |
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"Let your medicine be your food and your food become your medicine" |
| Pedanios Dioscorides (40-90 AD) | |
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ABOUT MEDICAL MATERIAL - ABOUT SIMPLE MEDICINES Most of the botanical species described by Dioscouris refer to their significant pharmaceutical value and in many cases have helped modern medicine with the fight against various diseases.
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| Claudius Galinos (129 - 199 AD) | |
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He was the second most significant greek doctor after Hippocrates. Galinos systematized the medical practice, that was based on Hippocrates' legacy. Galenism has been prevalent in the european medicine for fourteen centuries, while the calibration of drug effectiveness has enjoyed universal acceptance for more than a thousand and six hundred years. |
| Demokritos (~ 460 BC - 360 BC) | |
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"It is necessary for the body to be drenched by honey and externally for oil". |