AePVIII_Venice

Venice Ibrahim Shehatta Attia,
Director of Conservation researches & Training Department, Projects sector, Egyptian Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities (MoTA), Former director of Mummies & mummified remains laboratory, Grand Egyptian Museum Conservation Center (GEMCC).

Some Sedative Plants in Ancient Egypt: Egyptian Blue Lotus, Hemp, Mandrake & Opium Poppy 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.71067/AePVIII-2022-259-297
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Aegyptus et Pannonia VIII, Acta Symposii anno 2021, Plants and Health from Ancient Egypt. to the Present Day.
Proceedings of the Conference held between 14th and 16th October 2021, Budapest; ed. by Hedvig Győry.
Published by The Ancient Egyptian Committee of the Hungarian-Egyptian Friendship Society, Budapest 2022.
ISBN: 978-615-6571-02-1; DOI: https://doi.org/10.71067/AePVIII-2022  
Soft cover. No Jacket. 1.st Edition. 6+348 pages (24x17), with colour pictures.

Abstract:
Egyptologists confirms the use of various narcotics ranging from practical daily use (mood elevation) to religious application (incense offered to the gods), as well as widespread medical use in the treatment of various ailments.
Ancient Egyptian physicians were undoubtedly aware of the fact that Egyptian blue lotus, hemp, mandrake, poppy, datura, Egyptian henbane2 & belladonna were painkillers. There is no unequivocal evidence that they knew the chemical effects of the narcotics in each plant and the differences between their constituents, but they certainly knew how and when to use them, and
experience taught them the almost perfect doses needed as medicine away from their harmful poisonous effect