Hildegard von Bingen was a 12th-century Benedictine abbess, composer, mystic, and one of the most remarkable natural scientists of the medieval world. Born in 1098 in the Rhineland, she entered monastic life at a young age and rose to become abbess of Rupertsberg near Bingen am Rhein. It is from this place — and this woman — that Eurbal takes its name and its formula.
Scholar, Healer, and Herbalist
Between 1150 and 1160 Hildegard completed two landmark works: Physica, a systematic study of the natural world including hundreds of plants, and Causae et Curae, a medical text on herbs, the body, and digestion. In Physica, she wrote about bitter herbs — gentian, wormwood, and galangal — observing that bitterness had a particular relationship with digestion: warming the stomach and preparing the body to receive food. Modern gastroenterology has since confirmed these mechanisms.
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Eurbal’s founders drew directly from Hildegard’s documented botanical knowledge to create Hildegard’s Original Bitters Tablets: a precise, portable, alcohol-free expression of the same herbs she praised nine centuries ago. See our herb-by-herb guide to the Hildegard formula, and explore the historical and herbal context at Healthy Hildegard.
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