Download or read book Medieval Herbal Remedies written by Anne Van Arsdall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.