Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine

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

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PG inhibitor

Medical; Herbal medicine

Exogenously, a PGE inhibitor like aspirin, and usually intended to lessen joint inflammation and uterine spasms.

SGOT and SGPT

Medical; Herbal medicine

Liver enzymes that are normally only present in minute quantities in the blood, they become elevated under a variety of circumstances, particularly hepatitis.

Testosterone

Medical; Herbal medicine

The principal reproductive androgen of males, largely responsible for sexual maturation, some libido, and a range of metabolic reactions that, while supplying short-term strengths, creates a ...

Terpenes

Medical; Herbal medicine

Any of a group of hydrocarbons that are made up of building blocks of isoprene (C5H8) or similar five-carbon units, with a monoterpene made up of two units (example: limonene and pinene), a ...

Nicknamed is thyroxine. Secreted by the thyroid along with T3 (triiodothyronine...also called thyroxine), this thyroxine is mostly conjugated in the blood by TBG (thyroxine-binding globulin), whereas ...

Thoracic duct

Medical; Herbal medicine

This is the bodies’ main lymph collecting vessel. It starts in the little collecting bladder in the abdomen (the cisterna chyli), moves up the centre of the body in front of the spinal chord, ...

Thrombosis

Medical; Herbal medicine

The formation of a blood clot within the circulatory system. It may form in the roughened vein wall in a varicosity, form around arteriosclerotic plaques, or result from trauma and surgery. The ...