The healing power of nature -
Hildegard von Bingen and her herbal teachings rediscovered
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) was an impressive figure of the Middle Ages: Benedictine nun, mystic, visionary, composer, healer and naturalist. At a time when women were barely heard, she wrote important works on medicine, theology and cosmology - inspired by visions she had received since childhood. Around 1150, she founded her own monastery on the Rupertsberg near Bingen, where she developed her comprehensive naturopathic system.
In her main works on medicine - Physica (Book of Natural Remedies) and Causae et Curae (Causes and Cures of Diseases) - Hildegard describes over 200 plants, animals, stones and metals, to each of which she assigns specific healing properties.
Particularly noteworthy:
- Holistic approach: body, mind and soul are understood as an inseparable unit.
- Individual constitutions: Her doctrine of the “humors” (humoral pathology) takes into account the character and temperament of the person.
- Plants with spiritual power: According to Hildegard's understanding, many herbs not only have a physical but also a spiritual strengthening effect.
Her most important herbs include
- Bertram (Anacyclus pyrethrum): Stimulates digestion, strengthens the life forces
- Galangal: strengthens the heart, warms, stimulates circulation
- Quendel (wild thyme): against melancholy and for detoxification
Hildegard's approach to music is less well known but of great importance. Her compositions were not only regarded as an expression of divine inspiration, but also as healing for the soul. She wrote over 70 liturgical chants and the musico-dramatic work Ordo Virtutum, which is still performed today.
For her, music was a means of restoring the “harmonia mundi” - the divine order. Today, this idea has an astonishing parallel in the world of solfeggio frequencies, which were already used by Guido of Arezzo in his chants in the 11th century: These specific frequencies (e.g. 528 Hz for cell regeneration or 396 Hz to resolve guilt and fear) are reminiscent of the principle of vibration as a healing agent - an approach that can be found in modern form in sound therapies and frequency-based devices, for example.
- Back to simplicity: many complaints can be alleviated with natural remedies.
- Connection to nature: plants, diet and lifestyle in harmony with the rhythms of nature.
- Intuitive healing power: Mindfulness and spiritual connection are part of the healing process.
- Frequency medicine reloaded: Your thoughts on healing music and harmony can now be reinterpreted in a modern form with Solfeggio frequencies, sound therapy and frequency-based devices.
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