In Russia have long been familiar with ...

To Russia have long been familiar with alcoholic beverages, like honey, home-brewed beer, drunk kvass. In the XVI century were added bread wine and vodka. Abuse of alcohol is distributed in the XVII century, which to some extent contributed to the instability of the central government in the early decades of this century and the opening in the second half by the decree of Fyodor Ivanovich (15571598) of a network of state-owned drinking houses and taverns. Subject to combat the spread of alcoholism in Russia is reflected even in the first law of ancient Russian state, "Russian Truth", where, for example, condemned by the merchants, "drank his mind." In his "Sermon", appeared in 1117, Monomakh urged to beware of drunkenness "from Grozny imposed a large tax on beer jam and honey." However, honey, and subsequently the wine was used by our ancestors for therapeutic purposes. Popularity, including the treatment of fevers with delirious component, the "lechtsov" Moscow in the XVII century, used anise, peppermint, wormwood and other medicinal vodka, which included many ingredients. Used respectively the name of a special "apoplektikovaya vodka" made from cinnamon, cloves, ginger, tsitvarnogo seed, nutmeg, oilseed legumes, root peonies, juniper berries and other ingredients. At the same time for the preparation of medicinal vodka in Russia during the first medical facility management Aptekarskii order was established a kind of laboratory to post with her "spirit perepuschika. For the treatment of alcoholism at the time tried to use various medicinal formulations. Thus, in one of the medical manuscripts mentioned: "That person drinks a lot. Take the aspen and spruce bark ostruzhi lip is finely and mixed with wine and give him a drink and behold from start to drink does not." In another similar document for the treatment of alcoholism were recommended now known in folk medicine, medicinal plants: "Cap the skinny on the heart of the ITES consumed that day defends and preserves. The juice of fresh tarragon and honey and warm water from drinking piyuchi observes." It should be noted that the roots of plants, called the initial letter is often used in modern medicine as an emetic. To reduce the manifestations of psychotic reactions advised to let the ears of the juice of rue, which, according to modern sources, is a combination of essential oils, flavonoids, aromatic compounds, coumarins, carotenoids and other substances, in combination with tonic, and most importantly, sedative properties. In the treatment of mental disorders, as it was established, was advised to use different mixes of drugs, where, for example, consisted of pepper, and cumin wormseed, which recommended to mix with honey, boiled, then "yasti for three days at the heart of the skinny on a single day on lozhitsy and will be Velma health ". Another drug mixture, recommended by mental illness, was out of ginger, Bobkov oil, from which the oil is doing, "grated pepper seeds, shells of nuts and cumin.