Alchemy
The alchemists were a group of men who in the Middle Ages tried to produce gold from base metals. They were chemists and mystics at the same time. The plants commonly known as “lady’s mantle” have the genus name Alchemilla, which is related to the word “alchemy”. The alchemists believed that the drops of water from dew and rain that collected on the leaves of the Alchemilla plants were very pure and “noble”, and thus suitable as an ingredient in the production of gold.
