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2. Red Book of Hergest - Wikipedia

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   The Red Book of Hergest ( Welsh: Llyfr Coch Hergest ), Oxford, Jesus College, MS 111, is a large vellum manuscript written shortly after 1382, which ranks as one of the most important medieval manuscripts written in the Welsh language. It preserves a collection of Welsh prose and poetry, notably the tales of the Mabinogion and Gogynfeirdd poetry.

3. Medieval medicine of Western Europe - Wikipedia

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   Many monasteries developed herb gardens for use in the production of herbal cures, and these remained a part of folk medicine, as well as being used by some professional physicians. Books of herbal remedies were produced, one of the most famous being the Welsh, Red Book of Hergest, dating from around 1400.

4. Herbal medicine - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. An antique selection of herbal medicines. Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine. [1]

5. Bald's Leechbook - Wikipedia

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   Bald's Leechbook. Bald's Leechbook (also known as Medicinale Anglicum) is a medical text in Old English and Medieval Latin probably compiled in the mid-tenth century, [1] possibly under the influence of Alfred the Great 's educational reforms. [2]

6. Herbal - Wikipedia

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   A herbal is a book containing the names and descriptions of plants, usually with information on their medicinal, tonic, culinary, toxic, hallucinatory, aromatic, or magical powers, and the legends associated with them. [1] [2] A herbal may also classify the plants it describes, [3] may give recipes for herbal extracts, tinctures, or potions ...

7. History of herbalism - Wikipedia

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   The history of herbalism is closely tied with the history of medicine from prehistoric times up until the development of the germ theory of disease in the 19th century. Modern medicine from the 19th century to today has been based on evidence gathered using the scientific method. Evidence-based use of pharmaceutical drugs, often derived from ...