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The monks wrote down their knowledge of the medicinal plants. Extensive medical works were created, which were studied and deepened by healing monks for centuries. In the 8th century, medical knowledge was written down in the Lorsch Pharmacopoeia in the Lorsch Monastery.

In the 11th century the monk Odo de Meung wrote the "Macer foridus", a standard work of herbal medicine that was distributed throughout Europe. Hildegard von Bingen wrote her medical works "Physica" and "Causae et curae" between 1150 and 1160, which are used in naturopathy to this day. Monastery medicine was at its peak from the 10th to the 13th centuries.

For centuries, monks guarded and deepened the medical knowledge and the secrets of medicinal plants in their libraries. It was not until the invention of the printing press in the 15th century that the way was paved for the further dissemination of their knowledge. From then on, the nobility and knights laid out their castle gardens following the example of the monastery gardens.

Cottage gardens were created in the countryside, and parish and pharmacist gardens spread in the towns. The monks' knowledge of medicinal plants and their effects paved the way from basic medical care to the development of today's conventional medicine.

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