Workshop 'Herbarius. Medicinal plants from the garden'

Following the Greek and Roman medical tradition, transmitted to the medieval West through the Arabs, medieval medicine understood that the human body was composed of four elements in balance (air, water, earth and fire), identified with four humors (blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm). In the Middle Ages, disease was understood as an imbalance of these elements that had to be restored, firstly, through diet, secondly, with pharmacology and only as a last resort …