Ancient Egyptian Cannabis Medicine

Did you know the oldest written drug prescription on Earth involves cannabis?

And the specific way ancient Egyptians used it is not what you would guess.

The document is called the Ebers Papyrus, a medical scroll from around

1550 BCE. It is packed with hundreds of remedies for

ailments

across the entire body. Some entries treat wounds,

others digestion,

others fevers no one fully understood yet.

Buried among them is a plant Egyptian healers trusted for swelling and pain.

You might picture it smoked or brewed into some kind of drink.

Instead, scribes recorded grinding cannabis into a

paste for a very specific

use. That paste was applied directly to the

eyes to treat inflammation.