Medieval herbalist

"Good morning good Doctor, how has business been lately?" The villager woman asked him. He could tell she had been in the grasses picking flowers and berries due to her basket." Oh just fine my dear Villager. I have a patient Goody Racheal discovered outside the village." The Doctor said, holding the bag of medical supplies he had gotten from the village. He was heading back to his office to look over the man." That's good to hear, you have a great day then." The woman said, walking…

Spring is finally here with spells of sunshine, birds singing and flowers blooming! It’s the perfect time of year to explore medieval gardens and their many uses. Gardens during this period were highly practical and used to grow both food produce and medicinal plants. The British Library houses a blooming...

I designed some props for a medieval herbalist, like 13th-14th century. I used a unified palette, but also wanted the colors to seem like something out of a manuscript. Or have that sort of worn, rich look, sort of like old leather or stained parchment. Hopefully I nailed it!

There is so much we can learn from the Medieval time period from food habits and clothing styles to weapons and medical practices. Dive in to learn more!

“My belief is that it’s the caring of the healer that’s most important, but no one’s going to be able to test for that.” —Stephen Buhner, Herbalist “I would never choose a healer according to whether or not they had credentials. I’d find someone t...

Fanart of a The Witcher character for the GWENT illustration contest

Plants in the Beautiful Dangers are either poisonous or have been thought to be poisonous at different times in history. Hemlock, Cannabis, Hemlock, even the rose. Tiles based on medieval illustration from the Juliana Codex (Vienna Dioscorides), the De Materia Medica of Pedranius Dioscorides.

The Alchemy Guild is an international organization whose members are practicing alchemists, or interested in studying various aspects of spiritual and practical alchemy. The Guild is dedicated to personal and planetary transformation using the ancient principles of alchemy.