title: [Monastery Medicine - What's the story behind it? What's reasonable, what's no good?]
abstract: "Monastery medicine" refers to the traditional medieval European medicine, which was above all in the hands of monks and nuns. We warn against the uncritical application of the historical treatment recommendations, such as by Hildegard von Bingen, as herbal humoralpathological drugs are not always harmless. Modern phytotherapy, however, is well-founded in science. Combined with adapted monastic elements such as dietetics and regulative therapy, as the basis of a "new monastery medicine", it can be used as a supplement to academic medicine.
authors.forename: Heike
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Will
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Eisenmann-Tappe
mesh_terms: D004046:Dietetics / Q000639:trends*; D008519:Medicine, Traditional / Q000639:trends*; D026441:Mind-Body Therapies / Q000639:trends*; D008517:Phytotherapy / Q000639:trends*; D012068:Religion and Medicine