MATERIA MEDICA MEDICINA MAGICA
Buskerud Kunstsenter•Jan 21, 2026 — Mar 01, 2026
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In the exhibition MATERIA MEDICA MEDICINA MAGICA, Sarah Vajira Lindström delves into a world of medicinal plants and pharmacology, grimoires and folk belief.
Plants have been used for healing and to combat illness for thousands of years, across all known cultures. Animals, too, have made use of plants as medicine in various forms. Western scientific research into such plants, however, is little more than 200 years old and has largely followed the emergence of organic chemistry, which made it possible to isolate active compounds. Prior to this, knowledge was primarily experiential and transmitted orally, through reference works such as so-called pharmacopoeias, or grimoires.
Materia medica refers to an earlier collective term for medicines (medicinal material) and originates from the Roman physician and botanist Pedanius Dioscorides’ pharmacological work De materia medica, written between AD 50 and 70. This work served as a central source of knowledge on medicinal plants and their…
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MATERIA MEDICA MEDICINA MAGICA
Buskerud Kunstsenter•Jan 21, 2026 — Mar 01, 2026
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In the exhibition MATERIA MEDICA MEDICINA MAGICA, Sarah Vajira Lindström delves into a world of medicinal plants and pharmacology, grimoires and folk belief.
Plants have been used for healing and to combat illness for thousands of years, across all known cultures. Animals, too, have made use of plants as medicine in various forms. Western scientific research into such plants, however, is little more than 200 years old and has largely followed the emergence of organic chemistry, which made it possible to isolate active compounds. Prior to this, knowledge was primarily experiential and transmitted orally, through reference works such as so-called pharmacopoeias, or grimoires.
Materia medica refers to an earlier collective term for medicines (medicinal material) and originates from the Roman physician and botanist Pedanius Dioscorides’ pharmacological work De materia medica, written between AD 50 and 70. This work served as a central source of knowledge on medicinal plants and their…
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