how were herbs crushed into medicine in the renaissance period? also what tools were used to crush them?

Answer 1

herbs and spices were crushed in a "mortar and pestle" a thick deep bowl usually of stone like marble with a large long thick rod usually of the same material. the herbs etc were placed in the bowl and the thick rod was used to smash the stuff. some were pounded others were just ground.
in allot of pharmacies you can see decorative mortars and pestles.

Answer 2

The mortar and pestle date back to antiquity, possibly to prehistory, and they were consistently used for crushing herbs into medicine or for cooking, even to get pigments out of flowers. A mortar and pestle can be as simple as two rocks, one slightly concave and the other convex -- or they can be sophisticated, carefully crafted tools.

The words "mortar" and "pestle" come from Medieval French. By the 14th century, the word "mortar" was commonly used to refer to "both the crushed drugs and the vessel in which they were crushed." A century earlier, the word pestle emerged, derived from the Latin 'pistillum' which means 'pounder' -- pestle probably came first because when you have a pounder-thing you don't really need a special container to pound into to begin crushing things.

Answer 3

A mortar and pestle were used to crush herbs to make medicine.
They could be made of stone or wood. You can see a mortar and pestle in most drug stors.

Answer 4

By mortar and pestle.

Answer 5

with a mortar and pestle

Answer 6

a morter and pistol