These are some of Hildegard von Bingen's excerpts from herbs, plants and trees. Organized so that it is clearer. There are also a few recipes included. We assume no liability for this and if you have any questions regarding your health, you can ask your doctor or pharmacist before you want to make up a prescription.
The Columbine
Aloe and jaundice
The apple
The apple bud oil for headaches
The arum root wine against gastritis
Wild garlic
The Bachmint – a Hildegard spice
The mugwort
The betonica herb
The bibernella mixed powder
The beans as medicine
Bean salad with spelled grains
The nettle as “spring cleaning”
The nettle oil against forgetfulness
Fever remedy – watercress
The boxwood
The spelled
The healing power of spelled
The Dittany
The Eberwurz (Byverwurtz) – a universal remedy
Yew wood for hay fever and asthma
The fern bath for gout, rheumatism, arthritis or arthrosis
The Sivesan powder (fennel powder)
The Galangal
Fever reliever – galangal water
The barley
The barley washes for beautiful facial skin
Hawkweed mixture for heart and circulatory weakness
The oats
The hornbeam shavings against birthmarks and port-wine stains
Hemp as a medicine and as a bandage material
The houseleek against male infertility
The deer tongue powder for severe pain
The deer tongue elixir for the liver and lungs
The millet
The honey
The hops
The ginger drainage cookies
The ginger mixed powder for stomach pain and upper abdominal pain
St John's wort
The chervil
The enjoyment of cherries
The vinegar cherry stones against intestinal worms
The Kubebe (The Cubeb Pepper)
The Pumpkin
The lettuce mixed powder
The linseed
The Lindenspanring
The linden root wood powder for heart pain
The laurel oil for heart pain
Almond oil – a high-quality oil
The mulberry wine
Fever remedy – the Meisterwurz wine
The lemon balm
The feverfew
The feverfew ointment
Mother cumin
The clove
Olive oil as a medicine
The olive oil for cramps
The parsley
The pepper
The pennywort mixture
The plum stone cure
The Polei vinegar honey against stomach mucus, gastritis, stomach and intestinal fungi
The Polei mint for stomach pain, gastritis, and fungal diseases
The rose oil
The healing ointment made from roses
The yarrow – its internal use
The blackthorn ash elixir for paralysis
The iris as a beauty product
The iris ointment
Siser oil for sick facial skin
The saxifrage
The licorice root
The fir ointment
The violet fat
The violet ointment
The juniper steam bath
The wine and vinegar for bladder weakness and bedwetting
The vine drops against incipient vision damage
The oily vine drops for earache
The wormwood juice mixed with wine for severe headaches
The cinnamon
The cypress bath for poor circulation
Other
The Rose – The Lily – The Sage
“...and whoever is hot-tempered, let him take the rose and a little sage and grind it into powder. And in that hour, when anger arises in him, he shall hold it to his nose. For the sage comforts, the rose delights...The scent of the lily also delights the human heart and gives him the right thoughts...
Mix your own fragrance oil from rose oil, lily oil and sage oil and delight your heart and soul.
The garlic and onions
“...Garlic is more beneficial to eat for healthy and sick people than leeks. And it must be eaten raw...because its juice is temperate and has the right warmth. It should be eaten moderately so that the blood in people does not become excessively warm...
“The onion does not have the right warmth, but rather sharp moisture...When eaten raw, it is harmful and poisonous, like the juice of useless herbs. When cooked, however, it is healthy to eat because the fire reduces the harmful effects in it... But for those who have stomach problems, it causes pain both raw and cooked...
Garlic raw or cooked lowers cholesterol levels and is good against arteriosclerosis. Onions, on the other hand, may only be consumed boiled or fried and should generally be avoided by those with weak stomachs!
The clary sage elixir against inflammation of the gastric mucosa
“... And whoever's stomach is so weak that it is easily purulent from food, let him take clary sage and a third part of it polei and of fennel as much as a third part of polei, and at the same time he cook this in good wine , with the addition of a little honey, and he strains it through a cloth, and often drinks it after meals and towards night; his stomach will be pleasantly cured or cleansed.”