A plant substance or extract that was historically used in medieval medicine, though its exact botanical identity is now unclear.
Of uncertain origin, possibly from Arabic or Old French medical texts. The word appears in medieval herbals and pharmacopeias but its modern botanical equivalent is disputed among scholars.
Medieval pharmacies listed mysterious ingredients like esdragol in their recipes—historians now realize many of these exotic 'medicines' were probably just different names for common herbs, lost in translation between languages and centuries.
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