Monographs

  • Artemisia absinthium L. Monograph: Wormwood

    Saturn’s Great Regulator ~ Absinthium in Carolingian Medicine and Modern Practice Artemisia absinthium occupies an unusual position in the European materia medica: it is simultaneously one of the most ancient, most consistently described, and most persistently misunderstood plants in the clinical tradition. Its presence in the Carolingian garden is documented not in the administrative plant…

  • Salvia officinalis L. ~ Garden Sage Monograph

    Salvia officinalis has been cultivated in European medicinal gardens without interruption since at least the ninth century, when the Capitulare de Villis — Charlemagne’s imperial plant mandate — required it by name in every estate garden across the Frankish empire. It is listed in Chapter 70 alongside a carefully chosen roster of plants that the…