Pedanius Dioscorides
"Lycium" has been known to European herbalists since ancient times, and species were traded from the Far East to Europe by the Romans, for example via Ariaca and the port of Barbarikon near today's Karachi, as mentioned in the "Periplus of the Erythraean Sea". In his "Naturalis historia", Pliny the Elder describes boxthorn as a medicinal plant, as does Pedanius Dioscorides in his "P. Dioscoridae pharmacorum simplicium reique medicae".