Growing a home apothecary
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Growing a home apothecary
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Re: Growing a home apothecary
#2In medieval Europa monasteries were required since Pope Gregor to grow a number of medicinal plants to ensure that the population has access to medicine.
While i am not an opponent of modern medicine, it is kind of sad how little modern humans use the remedies nature provides.
Search for monastery medicine for more info.
Re: Growing a home apothecary
#3An apothecary is a person -- or an establishment where such a person works -- not a garden. Odd use of the word.
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#4Do those plants really cure those things listed in the article?
Re: Growing a home apothecary
#5An apothecary is a person -- or an establishment where such a person works -- not a garden. Odd use of the word.
It's a bit weird, but makes sense as a rhetorical device. It's sort of like saying "Growing your own vegetable market".
It's not literally true, but it expresses the idea that you are growing a wide variety of things that one would find at a vegatable market.
Re: Growing a home apothecary
#6In medieval Europa monasteries were required since Pope Gregor to grow a number of medicinal plants to ensure that the population has access to medicine. While i am not an opponent of modern medicine, it is kind of sad how little modern humans use the remedies nature provides. Search for monastery medicine for more info.
There is also the capitulare de villis[0] from around AD 800. The German Wikipedia entry has a well formatted list of all the plants and trees. Very interesting!
Re: Growing a home apothecary
#7In medieval Europa monasteries were required since Pope Gregor to grow a number of medicinal plants to ensure that the population has access to medicine. While i am not an opponent of modern medicine, it is kind of sad how little modern humans use the remedies nature provides. Search for monastery medicine for more info.
We probably haven't lost as much as you think - we either still use it or it was bunkum (for a given application).
eg. Chamomile - still used for bad stomachs (is a costive), whether it works on herpes simplex seems really dubious.
Re: Growing a home apothecary
#8Do those plants really cure those things listed in the article?
Yes, what do you think they make modern medicine out of? Most of the time a plant is the base for it.
Re: Growing a home apothecary
#9Do those plants really cure those things listed in the article?
See my other comment. But where they don't I'm sure they make a fine placebo.