If it's a medicinal why the lack of accuracy?

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Apparently flowers are highly important to medicinal remedies and play a vital role bioactive compounds. 

Not in the early 15th century. The logic why a certain medicament 'worked' had nothing to do with chemistry, and at best with 'experience' from the past.

The experience from obtaining certain flowers would be needed for the treatment of different ailments, thus the knowledge of compounds.  Maybe not in the sense of today's chemistry, but in apothecary.  Are we dabbling in semantics?  A true medicinal text would in my opinion not make light of a flower.  Notice in the image stem, calyx, flower.  I venture to pose that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. does not exist in nature.


Violet, miniature from You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. at the appropriate angle