Rosemary Materia Medica

Rosemary has been used in herbal medicine for thousands of years, becoming especially prized as a medicinal agent during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Its medicinal virtues can be extracted using water or alcohol and is considered to exert the following therapeutic actions: stimulant; tonic; nervine; cephalic; antispasmodic; anodyne; diaphoretic; stomachic; carminative; cholagogue; emmenagogue; astringent. Rosemary, mildly antimicrobial and antiviral, was used in medieval times to protect against plague.

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