Medical pros revisit the 150-year history of coffee enemas to weigh their potential benefits and hidden dangers.

One of the oldest medical textbooks in the world, the Ebers Papyrus from 1550 B.C., describes how the ancient Egyptians used cupping therapy for treating fever, pain, vertigo, menstrual problems ...

Scientists have discovered castor oil in Egyptian tombs dating back to 4000 B.C. An ancient Egyptian medical text called the Ebers Papyrus, dating to 1550 B.C., shows that early physicians ...

When archaeologists began translating medical papyri like the Ebers Papyrus from around 1550 BCE, they discovered detailed records of blue lotus preparations used to treat everything from pain and ...

Diabetes has been a well-known condition since ancient times, described 1500 years before Christ was born, in the Egyptian medical text the Ebers papyrus. Modern doctors thought they knew how it ...