... (thorn apple), hyoscyamus(henbane), and mandrago officinalis (mandrake), wereinvested with therapeutic and magic properties such assleep-inducing, analgaesic, antihistaminic and hallucino-genic ... something between myth and reality, as an expressionof a magical divinatory, hieratic and empirical technicalpractice. Consequently, ancient medicine is tightly linked with ancient mythology. An ... humoral theory was themost lasting and influencial one for many centuries. In fact, it influenced the way the diseases and their determin-ing causes were seen by physicians, thus influencing theirtreatment...