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Is it their fault that some of the earliest writings with regards to cockroaches encouraged their use as medicine, that Pedanius Dioscorides (1st century), Kamal al-Din al-Damiri and Abu Hanifa ad-Dainuri (9th century) all offered medicines that suggested either grinding them up with oil or boiling them and that the list of ailments to be treated included earaches, open wounds and "gynecological disorders?"
"You are also a paid astrotroller." Ann Althouse 2008
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The essential oil has been used medicinally since at least 50 CE when it was named by Pedanius Dioscorides in his De Materia Medica, a pharmacopoeia or book of plants and all their known medicinal uses.
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