Plant P Glossary

Green Papaya lists 240 of the most medically useful American plants...

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The remembrance of these astounding folk discoveries... should sober our thoughts when we criticise too freely the old pharmacopoeias. It is easy to make fun of medieval recipes: it is more difficult and may be wiser to investigate them. Instead of assuming that the medieval pharmacist was a benighted foot we might wonder whether there was not sometimes a justification for his strange procedure. -- George Sartori, Harvard Professor and Author

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Herbs

Pectoral

- good for diseases of the chest or lungs.

Pills

- medicinal materials held together in dry or wet form by their own or added properties. Medicine which is intended to act quickly should not be made into pill form.

Powders

- preparations in the form of fine particles.

Principle - an ingredient (such as a chemical) that exhibits or imparts a characteristic quality.

Psoriasis

- a skin disorder of unknown cause which is more annoying than dangerous. For this and similar skin irritations and eruptions, a number of plants have been used in American herbal medicine.

Purgatives

- generally synonymous with cathartics.

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