Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine

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

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Stipules

Medical; Herbal medicine

A leafy appendage formed at the juncture of leaf and main stem.

Stoloniferous

Medical; Herbal medicine

A plant that tends to form lateral roots, sometimes green and potentially stemming, sometimes blanched and tending to root from the nodes...or both.

Myalgia

Medical; Herbal medicine

Tenderness or pain of the muscles themselves; muscular rheumatism.

Myenteric plexus

Medical; Herbal medicine

Broadly, the several neuron masses, ganglia, and nerve fibre plexus that lie in the walls of the intestinal tract, particularly the small intestine. They monitor and stimulate local muscle and ...

Myxedema

Medical; Herbal medicine

Puffiness and fluid retention resulting from thyroid hypofunction, either organic (serious, and often complicated by pituitary or adrenalcortical deficiencies) or functional (often a bipolar ...

Narcolepsy

Medical; Herbal medicine

A chronic neurologic condition characterised by reoccurring and inexplicable drowsiness and sleep. There is no organic cause and no seeming changes in EEG readings.