Islamic herbalists believed that plants growing above the ground were appropriate for ailments of the upper body and plants that grew below the ground were appropriate for ailments of the lower body. … similarity of plant color to the color of the disease’s symptoms or the medical phenomena (Rhamnus alaternus, Italian buckthorn; Citrullus colocynthis, bitter gourd; and Ecballium elaterium, squirting cucumber ), and similarity of plant habitat or characteristic to

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THOUGHTS ON ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM: The Doctrine of Signatures

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