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If I remember correctly, Alain Touwaide did not believe that the VM was a herbal medicine, but some kind of parody or game. And even he suspected that it might be a fake.

I assume you are referring to the following statement by Alain Touwaide:

The manuscript borrows some iconographic motifs, but assembles them into unrealistic figures. Therefore, there is a coherence from the point of view of the iconographic language, but an incoherence in the assembly. And this aspect makes me say that it was not a herbarium for medical practice, but a creation, a caricature, an imitation, a game," Touwaide explained.

The explicit statement that the VMS is a fake is not to be found here. Maybe you have a source for this statement ?