Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine

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

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Splenomegaly

Medical; Herbal medicine

For practical purposes a term interchangeable with splenitis, since neither will have the usual symptoms associated with inflammation. Splenomegaly is often associated with viral hepatitis, ...

The male, pollen-producing organs in flowering plants. A staminate flower is only male, with pistillate (female) flowers on the same or different plants. Most flowering plants have both parts on the ...

Staph

Medical; Herbal medicine

This is short for Staphylococcus, a genus of micrococci bacteria with many members that can cause disease. They are gram-positive, nonmotile bacteria that are aerobic-(unless they need to be ...

Steatorrhea

Medical; Herbal medicine

The presence of undigested fat in the feces. This may be the result of failing to inoculate fatty foods with enough surfactant (biliary “soap”) to digest them, the failure of the lower small ...

Steroid hormone

Medical; Herbal medicine

These are fats similar to, and usually synthesised from, cholesterol, starting with Acetyl-CoA, moving through squalene, past lanosterol, into cholesterol, and, in the gonads and adrenal cortex, back ...

Steroids, plant

Medical; Herbal medicine

The previous subject is obviously an endless one, but as this is the glossary of an herbal nature, let me assure you, virtually no plants have a direct steroid hormone-mimicking effect. There are a ...