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Abstract

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the famous priestess of South-Germany, wrote an outstanding work including theological books, a composers work, a large correspondence and a medical book named "the book about the subtilities in the different natures of the creatures": "Liber subtilitatum diversarum naturarum creaturarum". This work has later been splitted in two or three books, the "Physica", the "Causae et curae" and the "Berliner Fragmente", perhaps a part of the "Causae et curae". Until today not all handwritings are critically edited. 25 plants can be found in gynecological or obstetrical indication in her writings. Regarded under modern aspects most of them could be used in minor gynecological problems. Some are almost unknown today, others are regarded as too dangerous. Finally the medical work of Hildegard of Bingen can be estimated as a threshhold of experience, but it should not be transferred into the modern medicine without a detailed analysis.