herbalistic

“Based on the assumption that "any civilization relying upon an herbalistic rational of medicine inevitably tends to find a preponderance of medicines for those ailments that are both most common and most lethal," he compared Mexican remedies with those of contemporary Europe.”

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

“If you want to know, it reminded me of those things in bottles in those herbalistic shops at Plymouth -- preserved in spirits of wine.”

Traffics and Discoveries