This Medieval Spice Was Worth More Than Gold And Big Pharma Hopes You Never Rediscover It

From Medieval Way

It is the year 1284. A merchant in Venice is settling a debt. He doesn't reach for coins. He doesn't hand over silver. He opens a small wooden box and counts out dried flower threads — each one thinner than a human hair and deep crimson red. Forty-five of those threads weigh one gram. And at that moment in history, that single gram is worth more than the same weight in gold. The spice is saffron. And for over three thousand years, every civilisation that got its hands on this flower used it for the same thing: medicine.

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