Herbal medicine

Herbal medicine

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

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corpus luteum

Medical; Herbal medicine

A temporary endocrine gland formed at ovulation from part of the former egg follicle, and the source of progesterone. See PROGESTERONE, ESTROGEN, MENOPAUSE

corticosteroids

Medical; Herbal medicine

Natural steroid hormones or synthetic analogues, usually taken for suppressing inflammation (and immunity) and therefore having cortisone-like functions, or taken as analogues to adrenocortical ...

cough, hectic

Medical; Herbal medicine

The dry and unproductive coughing in early bronchitis, when the mucosa is irritated but still too infected to secrete mucus

Attacks of uncontrollable coughing or "whooping", often relating to whooping cough or bronchiectasis, but they can also be caused by the smoke from burning plastics and (memories of yesteryear) hash ...

cough, reflex

Medical; Herbal medicine

A cough induced by intestinal, gastric or uterine irritation, and not from respiratory causes.

counterirritant

Medical; Herbal medicine

A substance applied to the skin to produce an irritating, heating, or vasodilating effect, in order to speed local healing by increasing circulation of blood, radiating the heat inward to inflamed ...

creatinine

Medical; Herbal medicine

It is the waste product of creatine, an enzyme found in large amounts throughout the tissues, and mainly excreted in the urine. The parent compound creatine enables the body to use the "blue flame" ...