5 Ancient Remedies Proven by Modern Science

For centuries, we have been told that the history of medicine is a straight

line—that we moved from 'superstition' to 'science.' But what if I told you

the ancients were already practicing a form of sophisticated chemistry we are only

just beginning to understand? In the fjords of the North, Vikings were using

a rare root to survive winters that would break a modern athlete. In the silent

gardens of 12th-century monasteries, monks were using a biological 'key' to turn off

the human stress response. And in the 1300s, a 70-year-old Queen

used a botanical tonic so powerful, it reportedly reset her age by decades.