According to many documents, Native Americans regard tobacco as a panacea, which can be used to treat various diseases, such as cold, headache, toothache, trauma, burns, abscess ulceration, anesthesia, tooth whitening and anti-fatigue. It is also called "holy medicine" because it can cure desperate diseases.
149210 June 15, the explorer Christopher Columbus first came into contact with the mysterious object of tobacco, but he gave it up because he didn't understand it.
150 1 year, two sailors sent by Columbus to Cuba in search of "Emperor China" first saw Native Americans smoking and learned many medical uses of tobacco. Crew Jerez also learned to smoke and became addicted, so he brought tobacco and smoking habits back to Spain.
15 18, the Spanish conqueror Cortez brought back tobacco from Mexico at the request of a monk who sailed with Columbus. 1530, Spanish sailors brought back tobacco seeds. Since then, tobacco has been officially introduced into Europe and gradually spread to European countries. It has achieved miraculous results in treating yaws and gonorrhea, including lupus and syphilis.
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Tobacco can be made into cigarettes, dry cigarettes, pipe cigarettes, cigars and so on. , and has many medical uses.
Although tobacco has brought a lot of harm to human beings, even called "poisonous weeds", many countries or regions explicitly restrict circulation or smoking, and members of the World Health Organization have also signed the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. However, as a medicinal plant with a long history, its medicinal value cannot be denied because of its harmfulness.
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