![]() John Gerard's Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, first published in 1597, states that his contemporaries found valerian "excellent for those burdened and for such as be troubled with croup and other like convulsions, and also for those that are bruised with falls." He says that the dried root was valued as a medicine by the poor in the north of England and the south of Scotland, such that "no brothes, pottages or phisicalle meates are woorth anything if Setwall were not at one end." In the 16th century, Pilgram Marpeck prescribed valerian tea for a sick woman. ![]() In medieval Sweden, it was sometimes placed in the wedding clothes of the groom to ward off the "envy" of the elves. Hippocrates described its properties, and Galen later prescribed it as a remedy for insomnia. Valerian has been used as a herb in traditional medicine since at least the time of ancient Greece and Rome.
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