Cultural communicator Birgit Martinsen presents: Medicinal herbs according to the doctrine of signatures and humoral theory

Come and get an exciting insight
into the plants of the middle ages from Birgit Juel Martinsen, Cultural
communicator. In the Middle Ages, the theories of signatures and humors
(bodily fluids) greatly influenced the use of plants in medicine. According to
the Doctrine of Signature, God has put his mark on all plants so that people
could know them by their use. E.g. blue anemones look like a liver, and
therefore it was believed that they could cure diseases of the liver. Learn
more and see what some of these medicinal plants look like.