Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine

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

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Herbal medicine

The beginning of the reproductive phase of a woman's life. It usually begins withy night sweats, continues a few months later with estrogen, followed by ovulation, then the full cycle and the growth ...

Menopause

Medical; Herbal medicine

The several years, in the late forties or early fifties, when the great birth reservoir of potential ovarian follicles has been reduced to only a few, many with innately poor hormone-sensitivities ...

Menopause, surgical

Medical; Herbal medicine

A term rather callously used to describe the cessation of ovarian hormones as a result of a radical hysterectomy...or what the British more honestly refer to as castration.

Menorrhagia

Medical; Herbal medicine

Excess bleeding at menses, in duration or amount. Causes are many, although chronic menorrhagia and PMS is usually the result of deficient progesterone secretions (days-per-month) or constant ...

Menstruum

Medical; Herbal medicine

The solvent used in extraction. For a dry tincture, the menstruum might be 50% alcohol and 50% water. The menstruum for mint tea is hot water.

Mesenchymal cells

Medical; Herbal medicine

Literally, those derived from embryonic mesoderm; practically, those in a tissue that give it structure and form. The opposite of parenchymal.

Mesenteric

Medical; Herbal medicine

Pertaining to the great fold that holds the small intestines, blood vessels and lymph in a great curtain, connected with the back of the abdominal wall.