How are you gonna understand herbs if you don't know what the words mean?¿

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How are you

gonna understand herbs if you don't know what the words mean.

:-) So here... Learn what the words mean. :-)

 

HERBAL DEFINITIONS

 

Absorbents: Herbs used to produce

absorption of exudates or diseased tissues.

 

Alteratives: Herbs used to alter the

existing nutritive and excretory processes and gradually restore normal

body functions.

 

Analgesics: Herbs used to allay pain when

administered orally. See also "Anodynes".

 

Anaphrodisiacs: Herbs used to lessen

sexual functions and desires.

 

Anodynes: Herbs used to relieve pain when

applied eternally.

 

Antacids: Herbs used to neutralize acid in

the stomach and intestinal tract.

 

Anthelmintics: Herbs used to expel or

destroy intestinal worms.

 

Antiabortives: Herbs used to counteract

abortive tendencies.

 

Antiarthritic: Herbs used to relieve and

heal arthritic conditions.

 

Antiasthmatics: Herbs used to relieve

asthma.

 

Antibilious: Herbs used to eliminate a

biliary or jaundice condition in the body.

 

Anticatarrhal: Herbs which heat catarrhal

conditions in the body.

 

Antiemetics: Herbs used to relieve

malarial-type fevers and chills.

 

Antiphlogistics: Herbs used to reduce

inflammation or swelling.

 

Antipyretics: Herbs used to reduce

temperature in fevers.

 

Antirheumatics: Herbs used to prevent,

relieve and cure rheumatism.

 

Antiscorbutics: Herbs used to prevent and

cure scurvy.

 

Antiscrofulous: Herbs used to heal

scrofula (tubercular condition of the lymph nodes).

 

Antiseptics: Herbs used to prevent, resist

and counteract putrefaction (decay of cells and formation of pus).

 

Antispasmodics: Herbs used to relieve

nervous irritability and reduce or prevent excessive involuntary

muscular contractions (spasms).

 

Antisyphilitics: Herbs used to relieve and

cure syphilis and other venereal disease.

 

Antivenomous: Herbs used as antidotes to

animals, vegetables and mineral poisons.

 

Antizymotics: Herbs used to destroy or

arrest the action of bacterial organisms.

 

Aperients: Herbs used as mild evacuants or

laxatives to bowels.

 

Aromatics: Herbs that are odoriferous,

having a fragrant, pungent and spicy taste, and which stimulate the

gastrointestinal mucous membranes.

 

Astringents: Herbs that influence the

vital contractility of cell walls, condense the tissues, make them

denser and firmer, and arrest discharges.

 

Aphrodisiacs: Herbs to correct conditions

of impotence and strengthen sexual power.

 

Balsamic: Herbs that mitigate, soothe and

heal inflamed parts.

 

Bitters: Herbs having a bitter taste and

serving as stimulant tonic to the gastro-intestinal mucous membranes.

 

Blisters: Herbs that cause inflammatory

exudation (blistering) of serum from the skin when applied locally.

 

Calefacients: Herbal agents used as

diffusive stimulants and which cause increased capillary circulation,

giving an external sense of warmth.

 

Cardiac Depressant: Herbs that lessen and

are sedative to the heart's action.

 

Cardiac Stimulant: Herbs used to increase

and give greater power to the heart's action.

 

Carminatives: Herbs containing a volatile

oil that excites intestinal peristalsis, and relieves and promotes the

expulsion of flatus or gas from the gastro intestinal tract.

 

Cathartics: Herbs that are active

purgatives to the intestinal tract, exciting peristalsis and

stimulating glandular secretions, producing semi-fluid bowel movements

with some irritation and griping.

 

Caustics: Herbs that burn or destroy

living tissue.

 

Cell Proliferants: Herbs that promote

rapid healing and restoration.

 

Cephalics: Herbs that are particularly

healing to cerebral conditions and diseases.

 

Cholagogues: Herbs used to promote a flow

and discharge of bile into the duodenum by contracting the bile ducts

and to produce purgation of the bowels.

 

Condiments: Herbs used to flavor or season

foods.

 

Coloring Agents: Herbs used for coloring

or dying purposes.

 

Cordials: Herbs that combine the

properties of a warm stomach and a cardiac stimulant.

 

Correctives: Herbs used to alter and

lessen the severity of action of other herbs, especially cathartics or

purgatives.

 

Cosmetics: Herbs which are skin tonics

and are used to improve the complexion and beauty of the skin. See also

"emollients".

 

Counter-irritants: Herbs that cause

irritation by local application in one part and therapeutically relieve

pain in another more deep-seated part.

 

I'll give you the

rest of this later in Herbal

Definitions Part two

;-)

 

~Bryan