Marijuana, or plants that have a scientific name "Cannabis Sativa" known to have been used by humans since thousands of years BC. In areas where hot or tropical climates, is known to grow cannabis plants with a posture of short but produces flowers and seeds with a lot of resin so it is more intoxicating than the same species growing in sub-tropical regions. While marijuana plants in subtropical or temperate regions grew cold with tall posture so that more exploited for fiber trunk.
How the human species was first used marijuana plants can not be known with certainty, but marijuana has been hailed as the first plants cultivated by humans rather than for the purposes of food resources (Robson, 1999). Another scientist, Reininger (1964) also added that the use of hemp for fiber plants actually happened later than other uses.
The oldest records about the use of marijuana plants by humans is as medicines. This entry comes from many different nations in the world with old civilizations like Sumeria, China, India to the Arabs.
From mainland China, the emperor Shen Nung, known as the first Chinese emperor who recorded the efficacy-efficacy of marijuana as a medicinal plant. Emperor Shen-Nong (who lived around the year 2900 BC) also mentions that hemp is one of five (5) main agricultural crop in China. Note the Emperor was then collected again and enshrined in medication first book in the world named "Pen T'sao Ching." The book mentions the use of the Emperor carrying hashish in eliminating pain coming months, malaria, rheumatism, disorders of pregnancy, indigestion, to the forgotten disease.
From the Tigris and Euphrates river valley which is the center of other civilizations have noted cannabis plants with different names and uses. From the library of Ashurbanipal in Nineveh have been found in 660 clay tablets that mention the benefits of hemp as an insecticide, sexual stimulant, cure impotence, neuralgia (nerve pain relievers), tonic (freshener), cure kidney disease, lung congestion, convulsions , depression, anxiety, epilepsy, wounds, and bruises on the skin as well, eliminating the pain of menstruation. Not far from the center of Mesopotamian civilization, the civilization of the Persians also had placed marijuana plants in their most sacred book, the Zend-Avesta as the first serial-numbered plants from the ten thousand more nutritious plant medicine.
In the Asian subcontinent, Indian hemp plant is a sacred plant. Book of Atharva Veda, which is one of the five books of Veda mentions hemp as one of the five sacred plants (Aldrich, 1977). Various books in India recorded a good range of usefulness of marijuana in the treatment of such Susruta Samhita who wrote the book useful for the treatment of respiratory inflammation, diarrhea, excessive fluid production, and fever (O'Shaughnessy, 1839; Walton, 1938; Chopra & Chopra, 1957). While other sources of the same book mentions the same benefits to supplement sexual desire and pain relievers (Dwarakanath, 1965) and used for the purposes of anesthesia (general anesthesia) in Indian society since ancient times (Sanyal, 1964). In another book, "Rajanirghantu", written by Nahari Pandita in about the year 300 AD, a detailed recommended recommended the use of marijuana to stimulate appetite, improve memory, and eliminate the gas in the digestive system (Chopra & Chopra, 1957).
This is a brief history of medical uses records of past marijuana plants that hopefully can add information and questions for us regarding the presence of cannabis plant which is currently prevalent only known by ordinary people as narcotic younger generation destroyer.
