Eμμηνα ἄγει: la estimulación de la menstruación en algunos textos tardoantiguos de origen dioscorideo

During Late Antiquity texts from Greco-Roman medicine was copied and collected. The study of these writings, and especially of those focused on materia medica, may reveal information about the transmission of the original works and the doctrinal tradition concerning the herbal remedies they contain....

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Author: Martínez Prieto, Rocío
Format: article
Publication Date:2020
Country:España
Institution:Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Repository:RUIdeRA. Repositorio Institucional de la UCLM
OAI Identifier:oai:ruidera.uclm.es:10578/47189
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4000/pallas.23813
https://journals.openedition.org/pallas/23813#quotation
https://hdl.handle.net/10578/47189
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Dioscorides Longobardus
Doctrinal tradition
Emmenagogues
Latin Dioscorides
Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis
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Summary:During Late Antiquity texts from Greco-Roman medicine was copied and collected. The study of these writings, and especially of those focused on materia medica, may reveal information about the transmission of the original works and the doctrinal tradition concerning the herbal remedies they contain. In this way, a philological analysis of such texts can provide us not only with information about linguistic issues but also about the properties of several plants. This paper deals with two dioscoridean writings from Late Antiquity, Liber medicinae ex herbis femininis and Dioscorides Longobardus, with the aim of gathering information about the most common uses of plants known as emmenagogues (i. e. which stimulate menstrual flow) and studying some aspects about the doctrinal tradition and the terminology of these texts.