Herbal medicine, most commonly known as botanical medicine, involves the use of seeds, bark, plant seeds, and flowers for medicinal purposes. It is gradually proving to be an incredibly potent way of treating illnesses and diseases as advances in clinical research and improvements in analysis uncover unknown, important aspects of this field of medicine. Experience and adventures built this field of medicine as little information was known concerning the cause of illnesses, as well as which combination of plants would be used to perform therapeutic procedures. African ancestors, as bright as they were, used these herbs, at that time completely oblivious about its function, to protect themselves, save themselves, and feed themselves.  
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The use of these herbs as medicine has deep roots in African cultures as these herbs can be traced back for thousands of years. Egyptian papyri and inscriptions portrayed herbal concoctions and formulas containing cannabis, myrrh, etc. still used today.