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Poultices were often used to treat wounds, rashes and various kinds of sores. A poultice is soft, sticky, moist mass of herbs that have been crushed and mixed, the applied to a bandage and wrapped over the skin.

Elixirs (medicinal liqueurs made from herbs steeped in alcohol) and herbal tea concoctions were often given for the sick to drink, in order to relieve certain ailments.

Another treatment for illness in the Middle Ages was called bloodletting. The idea was that the body's health depended on a balance between various "humors" (blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile) and in order to restore balance to the humors, one often had to get rid of the "bad blood" by letting some out. This led to the practice of bloodletting, actually removing blood from the body either by applying leaches or by piercing a vein with a fleam or other instrument. Bloodletting was often prescribed by a physician but then actually carried out by a barber surgeon, and the red, white and blue poles in front of barber shops today still indicate the profession's former practice of bloodletting, with the colors representing the blood and the tourniquet.

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