Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine

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

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ileum

Medical; Herbal medicine

The lower two-thirds of the small intestine, ending in the ileocecal valve and emptying into the cecum of the colon. The last foot of the ileum is the only absorption site available for such ...

The ability to resist infection and to heal. The process may involve acquired immunity, (the ability to learn and remember a specific infectious agent), or innate immunity (the genetically programmed ...

immunostimulant

Medical; Herbal medicine

An agent that stimulates either innate or acquired immunity. In the U.S., immunotherapy is relegated to experimental medicine, but a number of plant substances are used in Europe as immunostimulants. ...

immunosuppressant

Medical; Herbal medicine

An agent that acts to suppress the body's natural immune response. This is totally understandable in tissue and organ transplants, and in some dangerous inflammatory conditions, but nearly all ...

incontinence

Medical; Herbal medicine

The inability to retain urine in the bladder for a reasonable length of time. It is can be caused by urethral irritation, loss of tone to the basement muscle of the bladder (the trigone), ...

indolent

Medical; Herbal medicine

A sluggish and unresolving condition, often with ulcerations and necrosis.

influenza

Medical; Herbal medicine

A specific type of acute viral respiratory infection, with one virus (many strains) and a short, nasty stay. A few thousand people die from it every year, but humans alive at present have almost ...