Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine

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

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Homoeopathy

Medical; Herbal medicine

Almost two centuries old, it is a system of medicine in which the treatment of disease (symptom pictures) depends on the administration of minute doses (attenuations) of substances that would, in ...

Honeymoon cystitis

Medical; Herbal medicine

Urethral irritation from excess sexual activity...or as a famous French writer described it,"the plentiful rubbing together of bacons.

An enzyme made by traumatised cartilage (to soften and regenerate itself when injured) sperm cells (to dissolve the protective layer around an ovum), the spleen (to speed up hydrolysis), added to an ...

Hybrid

Medical; Herbal medicine

This is produced by a cross-fertilization between two species. This happens a lot more often than botanists would like, since a species is presumed to have distinct genetic characteristics and ...

Hydrocele

Medical; Herbal medicine

An organised mass of serous or lymphatic fluid, usually encapsulated by connective tissue. An internal blister. The term is usually applied to a hydrocele of the testes, but a breast cyst is also a ...

Hypercortical

Medical; Herbal medicine

Overly anabolic; used here to describe the constitutional, not pathologic state

Hyperemia

Medical; Herbal medicine

Excessive presence of blood, usually arterial; and the resultant increase in heat and metabolic rate. Hyperemia can be a pathology, blowing out blood vessels and the like; used here to describe the ...