Vocabulary List for Botanical Medicine

Adaptogen

Alterative

Amphiteric

Anodyne

Aperients

Carminative

Cathartic

Cholagogue

Constituent

Decoction

Diaphoresis

Doctrine of signatures

Eclectic

Elixir

Emesis

Emmenagogues

Emollients

Empirical

Excipient

Expectorant

Extraction

Febrifuges

Fluid extract

Garbling

Glactogogues

Hepatic

Herb

Infusion

Maceration

Materia medica

Monograph

Mutagenic

Ointment

Organoleptic

Pharmacology

Pharmacongosy

Purgative

Solid extract

Standardized extract

Styptic

Teratogenic

Tincture

Tonic

Vulneraries

Wild crafted