Greece - 500 BC.
The Greeks contributed to the knowledge of the Egyptians and began to record and classify the properties and actions of medicinal plants. It was Marsteus who first determined the stimulating and sedative properties of herbal remedies. Some of them attributed to Gerodut, creating the first method of distillation, registering the method of distillation of turpentine about 425 BC. The Greek surgeon Dioskorides wrote his five-volume herbal text, Materia Medica in 78 AD. The book describes the properties and uses of about 600 plants. This text became the main herbal reference, and was translated into Latin and became the standard medical text for the next 1000 years. Aromatic plants share cave procedures for ointments and massage oils for each known condition. It also mentioned important details of the harvest, when the active properties of the plant were the most powerful. Dioscorides discovered that the chemistry of plants varies with the time of day, year, and stage of development. The practice of harvesting plants continues to follow the same practice discovered by Dioscorides in modern modern oil industry.
The father of holistic medicine Hippocrates was a supporter of massage and recommended a mottled bath and daily massage. Theophrast Lesbos, a student of Plato in a medical school in Athens, mastered the school and widely studied herbal medicine, aromatic plants and resins. He noted that some ancient perfumes, such as the "aromas of roses", did not contain roses at all; and the so-called “marjoram perfume” from Egypt did not contain sweet marjoram. Even in ancient times, expensive botanical preparations were falsified. In his publication Concern Odors, he talks about the many physical and emotional effects of the fragrance. He learned that fragrances have medicinal value.
Rome
The Romans used generous and luxurious tools for the aromas of plants with baths, and the massage was the most famous. By 3 AD Rome was the bathing capital of the world. They especially loved roses and planted grass and rose gardens in foreign countries that they invaded. The famous English gardens are the heritage of the Romans.
The Romans also used aromatic plants for cosmetic procedures, cosmetics, hygiene and
treatment. With the fall of the Roman Empire, doctors fled to Constantinople with books containing the history of medicine, which then went to the Arab world. Europe entered the Dark Ages when advances in aromatic medicine stopped.
