Medieval medicine

During this period, medicine began to be recognized as a profession based upon formal education, standardized curriculum, and legal regulation. In some regions, physicians were required to pass examinations before beginning practice. Untrained physicians were subject to prosecution and fines, and state licensing became common. Still, not all healers were priests or scholars. Women practitioners commonly treated female patients, and although scorned by the educated physicians, uneducated surgeons and self-taught lay doctors, or "leeches", were permitted to work on both men and livestock. At the time of the Renaissance physicians and scholars began to scientifically study medicine. Many began to research human anatomy. Their discoveries corrected many of the errors that had gone undetected for centuries and were rapidly disseminated through the new invention of printing.
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Herbs as remedies

Centaury Gentiana acts on the liver and kidneys, purifies the blood, and is an excellent tonic. The dried herb is given in infusion or powder, or made into an extract. It is used extensively in dyspepsia, for languid digestion with heartburn after food, in an infusion of 1 OZ. of the dried herb to 1 pint of water. When run down and suffering from want of appetite, a wineglassful of this infusion Centaury Tea - taken three or four times daily, half an hour before meals, is found of great benefit. The same infusion may also be taken for muscular rheumatism. The green herb, bruised, is reputed to be good as an application to wounds and sores. The herb is so safe that you cannot fail in the using of it, only give it inwardly for inward diseases, use it outwardly for outward diseases.

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Use of the herbs at ancient medicine

Among the curatives used in ancient medicine were all types of plant, animal (all parts nearly) and mineral compounds. The use of these compounds led to an extensive compendium of curative recipes, some still available today. For example, yeast was recognized for its healing qualities and was applied to leg ulcers and swellings. Yeast's were also taken internally for digestive disorders and were an effective cure for ulcers. Herbal ingredients are common in the old medical formulations. One of frequently used herb is Sweetclower. The Yellow Sweetclover or Meliot has aromatic, emollient and carminative properties. It was formerly much esteemed in medicine as an emollient and digestive and is recommended for many complaints, the juice for clearing the eyesight, and, boiled with lard and other ingredients, as an application to wens and ulcers. More of this topic can be find at http://www.oldpreparation.com