Six facts about Amber in medicine of the past: 1) The first records concerning the use of amber as medicine date back to antiquity. Initially medicines were made only from ingredients available in the natural environment: plants, animals and minerals. It was also believed that the more ingredients a medicine contained, the better the final results. An original formula by Nicolaus Copernicus, kept in Sweden, specifies 22 ingredients, including amber. 2) In the Middle Ages plagues swarmed across towns, taking a heavy toll of the inhabitants. Fumigation with the smoke of burning amber was recommended as an effective preventive measure. As recorded by Matthaus Praetorius, During the plague not a single amberman from Gdansk, Klaipeda, Konigsberg or Liepaja died of the disease." (1680) Amber smoke is still used in aromatherapy at a cold, laryngitis, tracheitis, bronchitis, pneumonia and even asthma and tuberculosis. 3) In 1546 G. Agricola, a mineralist and a doctor, obtained succinic acid using dry distillation. The dry distillation (accomplished by heating amber in a vacuum) divides amber into acid, oil and rosin, all of which are exceptionally valuable and very useful. 4) Albert the Great (1193-1280), a Dominican and a philosopher, identifies amber as the first among the six most effective medicines "...Sunt sex in medicis, quae vincunt raobore aurum: succinium, ocastorem, mors, camphora, tartarus, aurum." 5) Succinic acid was analyzed by the pioneer of modern bacteriology, the Nobel Prize winner, Robert Kock (1886), who confirmed its positive influence and discovered that there is no risk of the accumulation of surplus amounts of succinic acid in the human organism, even after the introduction of considerable amounts into the body. 6) The father of healing, Hippocrates, declared amber active against a number of diseases including delirium tremens. #balticamber #amberhealing #facts #interestingfacts #medicine #healing #ancientmedicine #healthy