Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine is the study and use of plants for medicinal purposes.

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Expectorant

Medical; Herbal medicine

A substance that stimulates the outflow of mucus from the lungs and bronchial mucosa.

Extrasystoles

Medical; Herbal medicine

A premature contraction of the heart. It can be caused by nervousness, indigestion, a tired and enlarged heart - anything up to overt organic heart disease.

The feral and congested fluids built up in a bruise or infection. Unlike a transudate, which is merely edoema from lymphatic congestion, exudates contain dead cells, erythrocytes, white blood cells ...

Fibroids

Medical; Herbal medicine

Also called a leiomyoma or fibromyoma (or myofibroma, for that matter), it is an encapsulated tumour made up of disorganised and irregular connective tissue. A uterine fibroid is benign, there may be ...

Flatus

Medical; Herbal medicine

Intestinal or stomach gas. If it rises upwards, it is an eructation (burp or belch); if it descends, causing borborygmus (love that word), you are flatulent (fartish).

Flavonoids

Medical; Herbal medicine

From flavus, Latin for yellow. A 2-benzene ring, 15-carbon molecule, it is formed by many plants (in many forms) for a variety of oxidative-redox enzyme reactions. Brightly pigmented compounds that ...

Fluidextract

Medical; Herbal medicine

An extract of an herb that is made according to official (and unofficial) pharmaceutical practice, with a strength of 1:1. That means each ounce of the fluidextract has the solutes found in an ounce ...