Phytotherapy/Related Articles

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Parent articles

• Botany [r]: The study of plants, algae and fungi (mycology). ^[e]
• Complementary and alternative medicine [r]: Set of therapies and treatments not considered mainstream or scientific. ^[e]
• Healing arts [r]: The health sciences, forms of complementary and alternative medicine, and traditional practices aimed at curing disease, healing injury and promoting wellness. ^[e]
• Integrative medicine [r]: Organized health care that involves willing cooperation between mainstream and complementary medicine ^[e]
• Biologically based health practices [r]: Methods in conventional medicine, complementary and alternative medicine and traditional medicine that share the characteristic that substances used in the practice come from plants or animals ^[e]

Subtopics

• Arctium lappa [r]: Most common species of burdock; gobo in Japanese cuisine; used in herbal medicine ^[e]
• Digitalis purpurea [r]: Foxglove plant, the source of naturally occurring digitalis glycosides; also a highly ornamental plant that is quite poisonous ^[e]
• Hypericum [r]: Also known as St. John's Wort, an herbal medicine with some clinical studies showing activity, principally in depression ^[e]
• Opium [r]: A natural resin that can be extracted from the plant Papapeverum somniferum, which can be used to produced both medicinals and recreational drugs ^[e]
• Pelargonium sidoides [r]: Medicinal plant native to South Africa, whose derivative in inexpensive cold and flu medicines of various brands have unproven efficacy. ^[e] (Umckaloabo)
• Rheum palmatum [r]: A plant of the rhubarb family, containing a significant number of chemicals with biological activity in mammals; used in Native American and traditional Chinese medicine ^[e]
• Rumex acetosella [r]: Perennial herb, sometimes used as a salad green, and in herbal medicine whose leaves may contain enough oxalic acid to be toxic when eaten in large quantities. ^[e] (Sheep sorrel)
• Quinine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Saw palmetto [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Ulmus fulva [r]: Add brief definition or description (Slippery elm)
• Valerian [r]: A plant used in phytotherapy for anxiety and insomnia, for which randomized controlled trials have variously shown efficacy or inconclusive results; not used in conventional medicine in the U.S. ^[e]

Related topics

• Bach flower therapy [r]: A form of complementary medicine that uses remedies based on extracts from flowers, to improve what it terms vibrations, a class of biofields in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine taxonomy ^[e]
• Digitalis glycosides [r]: A family of alkaloids that are either plant extracts from Digitalis purpurea or synthetic analogues, which improve the pumping ability of the heart, although have a narrow therapeutic index before they become toxic ^[e]
• Digoxin [r]: The most commonly used synthetic derivative of digitalis glycosides, used clinically to improve the pumping action of the heart ^[e]
• Opioid analgesic [r]: Synthetic narcotic that has opiate-like activities, which induces analgesia by mimicking endogenous opioids, at opioid receptors in the brain. ^[e]