The Doctrine Of Signatures was an important aspect of folk medicine from the Middle Ages until the early modern period. Often associated with the vv’ork of herbalists and wise women, it drew upon the belief that
natural objects that looked like a part of the body could cure diseases that would arise there. Folk healers in Christian and Muslim countries claimed that God would have wanted to show men what plants would be useful for. He would have left signs.
Here ‘s a poem about a man and Nature, and the rhymes between them.
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