Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine

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

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Herbal medicine

This is a sugar-bearing protein manufactured by the anterior pituitary. Like a lot of the pituitary hormones, it surges on and off, since constant secretion would overload and deaden receptors. In ...

Luteinizing-hormone releasing hormone (LH-RH)

Medical; Herbal medicine

The same substance as Follicle-Stimulating-Hormone Releasing Hormone (FSH-RH), both of which are actually Gonadotrophin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH or GRH). Confused? Imagine being an endocrinologist 20 ...

Lymph

Medical; Herbal medicine

Pertaining to the lymph system or lymph tissue, the "back alley" of blood circulation. Lymph is the alkaline, clear intercellular fluid that drains from the blood capillaries, where the arterial ...

Prostaglandin E (PGE)

Medical; Herbal medicine

Presumably the fifth subtype discovered, and usually separated into PGE1 and PGE2. These two, if made by the kidneys, slow sodium reabsorption; if within in the uterus, induce a stronger response to ...

PH

Medical; Herbal medicine

The potential of hydrogen. A "neutral" pH is expressed as 7.0 (water), with greater being alkaline and lesser being acidic. Expressed logarithmically like the Richter's Scale, 6.9 pH is twice as ...

Lymph nodes

Medical; Herbal medicine

The central drainage and metabolic organs strung along the lymph vessels. The mesenchymal structure is native, being present at birth. The functional cells have all migrated there, some recently from ...

Lymphadenitis

Medical; Herbal medicine

Inflammation or swelling of one or more lymph nodes. It may be an acute response or chronic, but signals the drainage into those nodes of microbes, their waste products, or the immuno-complexes ...