Though not a medieval herb per se, silphium was used extensively ... Mugwort had multiple uses in medieval medicine, including its application as an abortifacient. Known for stimulating ...

Some devout Christian felt that medicine was not a profession ... Monasteries, which led medical research and practice in Medieval Europe had extensive herb gardens for the production of remedies ...

The herbs from these gardens could be used ... al-Rāzī became chief physician at Baghdad's hospital. Medieval thinking about medicine evolved in Europe through encounter the Middle Eastern ...

For centuries, the University of Heidelberg, Germany, has housed hundreds of medieval medical texts ... "While some of them are herbal cures still used in alternative medicine today, others are based ...

Records from early medieval Japan document numerous descriptions ... the boundaries between what are often called "religion" and "medicine" were indistinct, if they existed at all.