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De materia medicaPedanius Dioscorides
Herbal Magick, Sacred Plants & Entheogens
De materia medica
- First publishedc. 70
- TraditionHerbal Magick
- Shelf89 books
A Greek pharmacological work in five books describing several hundred plants and other medicinal substances, written by a physician from Cilicia in the first century. Copied, translated and illustrated for fifteen centuries, it was the foundation of European, Byzantine and Arabic herbal medicine.













