Current pharmacology would not exist without knowledge acquired through centuries of medicine practice related to the utilization of the vegetal products. Although phytoterapy still remains rather unknown to man of today, the utilization of plants as curative elements in diseases is being reported for more than 6000 years.

Formerly, the findings of curative properties of vegetal products were rather intuitive and based on watching the animals looking for herbals that would relieve their diseases. History of phytoterapy blends with pharmacy's and until the 1800's medicines were developed by using medicinal plant based formulas.

In the year 1873, egyptologist Georg Ebers found a handwritten paper that became known as the firs egyptian medical essay, aging about 2000 years before the risen of the earliest greek medical practitioners.

In the year 1924, technicians of the Britannic Museum succeeded to identify 250 vegetal, mineral and other matters, whose therapeutic virtues were known by the Babylonian medical practitioners. The Greeks Hipocrates, Dioscorides and lately Galeno reported in their essays all the medical knowledge of their age, in a document binding whereby they described the diseases and their respective herbal medicines and prescriptions.

However, it was only in the years of Renaissance, in the beginning of the XVI Century, that the swiss medical practitioner Paracelso tried to correlate their therapeutic virtues with the morphologic properties, according to their form and color. He considered that a disease could be cured by the use of matters that would match with the disease. At last, the efforts for codifying succeeded, in 1735, with the publication of the Systema Naturae, by Lineu.