medieval garden plants

1. What was a medieval garden called?
2. What were herbs used for in medieval times?
3. What is a monastery garden?
4. What flowers were used in the Middle Ages?
5. Why did monasteries have gardens?
6. What medicine did medieval doctors use?
7. Who was a famous herbalist in the Middle Ages?
8. How were the sick treated in medieval times?

What was a medieval garden called?

A Pleasaunce was a large complex pleasure garden or park. The word paradise comes from a Persion word for a walled garden. The term was used by St. Gall to refer to an open court in monastery garden, where flowers to decorate the church were grown.

What were herbs used for in medieval times?

Headache and aching joints were treated with sweet-smelling herbs such as rose, lavender, sage, and hay. A mixture of henbane and hemlock was applied to aching joints. Coriander was used to reduce fever. Stomach pains and sickness were treated with wormwood, mint, and balm.

What is a monastery garden?

The monastery garden is a symbolic place where medicinal plants have both therapeutic use and religious meaning. The cloister is a natural as well as a spiritual space, where the monastic virtues are expressed by the geometry of the alleys and the floral composition.

What flowers were used in the Middle Ages?

Roses, lilies, iris, violet, fennel, sage, rosemary, and many other aromatic herbs and flowers were prized for their beauty and fragrance, as well as their culinary and medicinal value, and were as much at home in the medieval pleasure garden as in the kitchen or physic garden.

Why did monasteries have gardens?

Monastic gardens provided medicine and food for the monks and for the local community. Herbs were cultivated in the 'physic garden' composed of well-ordered rectangular beds, while orchards, fishponds and dovecotes ensured there would be food for all.

What medicine did medieval doctors use?

What kind of medicines did people use in the Middle Ages?

• Take equal amounts of radish, bishopwort, garlic, wormwood, helenium, cropleek and hollowleek.
• Pound them up, and boil them in butter with celandine and red nettle.
• Keep the mixture in a brass pot until it is a dark red colour.
• Strain it through a cloth and smear on the forehead or aching joints.

Who was a famous herbalist in the Middle Ages?

The most famous herbal author was the Greek physician Dioscorides (b. c. 40, d. 90), who was active in the 1st century.

How were the sick treated in medieval times?

A combination of both spiritual and natural healing was used to treat the sick. Herbal remedies, known as Herbals, along with prayer and other religious rituals were used in treatment by the monks and nuns of the monasteries.