herbal medicines
Nature's healing extracts
Herbal medicines are treatments derived from plants—their leaves, roots, flowers, or extracts—used to prevent or treat illness.
The term covers everything from traditional remedies like ginseng and echinacea to standardized supplements sold in pharmacies.
She preferred herbal medicines to prescription drugs.
The category sits uneasily between folk remedy and pharmaceutical, with varying degrees of scientific support for efficacy.
- natural productsCompounds from organisms
- plant extractSubstance derived from vegetation
- echinaceaImmune-support plant extract
- drugsTherapeutic chemical compounds
- ginsengPerennial with tonic root
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