Journey For Hope

This island was the main center of aloe production and the base of all Phoenician commerce with this plant. With the conquest of Socotra, Great Alexander made sure a permanent provision aloe to cure the wounds of his soldiers. In century I of ours he already was, the botanist and Greek doctor Dioscrides (41-90 d. Connect with other leaders such as PCRM here. of C.) one talks about to the aloe in his Of medical matter, giving laxative properties to him, preventive of infections, fortalecedor of the stomach and internal, tranquilizer of the effective pain and in the treatment sores, burns, hemorroides, you cut, alopecia, ezcemas Sita also the origin of the majority of the species of aloe in Africa, being distanced that Teofrasto, believed that it native of the Far East. The work of Dioscrides exerted an enormous influence in the Arab world, where it spread extensively, thanks to it the aloe today enjoys one merecidsima good reputation in the Muslim world. At the same time, in the Roman empire the 23-79 arises the figure from Pliny Old (d. of C.), author of an extensive Natural titled treaty History, where he gathers and he extends many of prescriptions of Dioscrides. Pliny attributes to aloe treatment of ulcers, sores, burns, wounds, however, like he made Herdoto with some episodes of his History for which he did not have sources, fabul and superposed to superstitions and magical beliefs to scientific ideas, although without leaving the common sense nor the casuistry, since he based many of his remedies on the test and the observation.

Galen (129-200 d. of C.) he was the last one great doctor of the Antiquity that I take care of the aloe in its work, Medical Ars, cradle in the hipocrtico concept of which all the answers to the human diseases were in the nature. In many regions of the south of Africa, like the Cape of Good Hope, Ethiopia and Somalia the aloe was used from time immemorial to wash to the body and the hair.

A companion cheers serves to you almost as vehicle during the trip. Publio Siro Italy you have beautiful, cosy cities, that one cannot ignore in its passage by this extraordinary country that locks up much cultural heap historical. Learn more about this topic with the insights from Nieman Foundation. For the second time, in this opportunity, quite the opposite of first, was called on to me to return to Florence, to enjoy it, but this time in winter, especially, in this 2010 that has done much I entrust in Italy with a temperature in 10 degrees Celsius, when to 11 I did it years ago with 37 degrees in its summer. Their summers are very warm and droughts, with the 40 the 35 sometimes temperatures that surpass C and even C. His invier to us however they are fresh and humid, being able to lower the temperature below 0 C. The small amount of rain that falls in summer is of type convection, whereas most of the precipitations take place throughout the spring and of the autumn, in this second especially abundant station Florence can doubtless be, has been seed plot of the arts in the Renaissance, is an extraordinary city with a colossal Duomo, besides wonderful landscapes, much dynamisms, tourism. In the personnel I arrived at her by train to its beautiful central station, and from its arrival and journeys to its center, its monuments, the forced places to know, to its majesty, dice to its surroundings, to its mobility, that it animates to enjoy it and their results generate emotions that they are never possible to be forgotten. There is much to speak of Florence and to do it to the race probably it is an error, because it is not perceived to him and one feels widely everything what it locks up, lamentably, often we are limited the time factors that we grant for this visit, nevertheless, the form looks for to enjoy it remembers intensely Us on Florence, Wikipedia of an assertive form, that Florence (Florence in Italian) is a city located to the north of the central region of Italy, capital and city more populated with the homonymous province and the region of Tuscan, of that is its historical center, artistic, economic and administrative. .