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chained_bear commented on the word dicalamentis
"The abbot promises to send a medicine known as dicalamentis (a mixture of such common garden plants as parsley, catmint, lovage, celery, pennyroyal, wild thyme, and fennel) to combat the effects of winter. He also promises that this dicalamentis, 'although cheap, has the same effectiveness as diamargariton,' a more expensive compound of powdered pearls, cloves, cinnamon, galangal, aloes, nutmeg, ginger, ivory, and camphor."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 70
November 28, 2017