De Materia Medica

A classic treatise on herbal remedies written by Dioscorides in the first century AD, which described more than 600 plants. De Materia Medica formed the basis for European herbal medicine, until Culpepper’s publication of The Complete Herbal in the 1600s.

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Background: De Materia Medica written by Pedanios Dioscorides (1 century CE) has shaped European and Mediterranean herbal medicine to a large extent.

Back to the roots: a quantitative survey of herbal drugs in Dioscorides' De Materia Medica (ex Matthioli, 1568)

Pedanius Dioscorides, early 1st century A.D., author of De Materia Medica, who travelled throughout the Roman Empire with Nero's army, collected samples of local medicinal herbs and plants, hypothesized that orchids influence sexuality.

Alexis Myre: orchid petal and small twig of the upper hemisphere: "Ojo de Dios"

On to Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist as well as the author of De Materia Medica - a five-volume encyclopaedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances that was widely read for more than 1,500 years.

On the quest for botanical detail

The book includes a foreword by an ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, color photographs, lists of covered plants included in De Materia Medica and other early sources, the shade-tolerance ratings of covered trees, species suitable for an urban meadow, key characteristics of major plant families, and a glossary.

Wild urban plants of the Northeast; a field guide

Almost as soon as it was written, De materia medica began to be excerpted, condensed, rearranged, and translated into Latin, Arabic, and European vernaculars.

De materia medica

Also, it has been argued that original text of the De materia medica was not originally illustrated.

The plant material of medicine

(16) SAN MARTIN, A.: Estudios de materia medica fisica, Ensayo de sistematizacion de las especialidades terapeuticas aereoterapia, hidroterapia, electroterapia y atmiatrica".

V: Esplendor de la Hidrologia Medica espanola

121-23), requires knowledge of Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, and Persian, as well as historical medical literature, from Dioskurides' De materia medica to Maimonides' glossary of drug names, to mention only the more easily accessible references (cf.