Renaissance Treatment - Herbs

• rely heavily on herbal remedies, but now we choose remedies

  based on colour or shape. For example, if you have yellow skin from

  jaundice, we use yellow herbs like saffron. Or if you have red skin

  because of a rash, we recommend drinking red wine, eating red fruits

  and wearing red clothes.
• Books were now used to

  spread ideas on herbal

  remedies. E.g. Mary Doggett

  noted scurvy could be cured

  by wine and 12 Oranges. But

  didn’t know why.
• New remedies were

  brought from the New

  World such as

  tobacco, tea,

  cinnamon and

  nutmeg. Sydenham

  used quinine for

  treating malaria.

  Ipecac cured

  dysentery.