Where do you suppose they kept medicines in the medieval era?
The where depends a lot on your social position and the amount of medical knowledge available to you or your caregiver. The most common medicines were natural herbs, either crushed and brewed as a tea-like beverage, or applied as a poultice to the afflicted area. Home remedies abounded, from the sensible (per above), to the grotesque and awful (including drinking horse urine)—Most of the basic ingredients could be found in the kitchen, or more likely, in the garden. They weren’t usually labeled, since they were known by sight, smell and taste. Higher up on the social scale, the at-home remedies were much the same, but barbers and doctors were practicing (and I do mean practicing) on patients who could pay. Common treatments included thinning the patient’s blood with incisions or leeches, fierce purgatives which caused vomiting and or explosive crapping, chemical compounds, some of which contained mercury or sulfur or other minerals. These were kept at the establishments of the practi
Most people did not have medicines like we do now. They probably had to go to the alchemist to get tonics and such. I am sure they kept them somewhere that was easily accessible, on a shelf or table. They didn’t have label makers back then so it probably was not labeled. Most of the time people would use herbs as medicine that were indigenous to the area that was commonly know to cure certain ailments.
