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From the earliest times, the medicinal properties of certain
herbs were connected with deities, particularly goddesses. Only now
with modern scientific research can we begin to understand the
basis and rationality that these divine connections had and, being
preserved in myths and religious stories, they continued to have a
significant impact through the present day. Riddle argues that the
pomegranate, mandrake, artemisia, and chaste tree plants
substantially altered the development of medicine and fertility
treatments. The herbs, once sacred to Inanna, Aphrodite, Demeter,
Artemis, and Hermes, eventually came to be associated with darker
forces, representing the instruments of demons and witches.
Riddle's ground-breaking work highlights the important medicinal
history that was lost and argues for its rightful place as one of
the predecessors
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