medicinal plant
Therapeutic botanical specimen
A medicinal plant is any plant used for its therapeutic properties—to treat illness, relieve symptoms, or promote health.
The category spans cultures and centuries, from ancient herbal remedies to modern pharmaceuticals derived from plant compounds: Willow bark was the medicinal plant that gave us aspirin.
Many medicinal plants remain central to traditional medicine systems worldwide.
- AyurvedaTraditional Hindu healing practice
- herbal remedyPlant-derived therapeutic preparation
- herbFlavorful or medicinal plant
- old wives' taleUnfounded traditional belief
- medicinalHaving healing properties
healing herb · alkaloids · apothecary · anti-inflammatory · antibiotics · wildcrafting · glycosides · ethnobotany · flavonoids · antivirals · terpenes · analgesics · ginseng · aloe · antioxidant · infusion · herbal tea · essential oil
- HimalayasMount Everest, Everest, K2, Nepal, Tibet
medicinal plantpoisonous plant
Flora harmful if ingested
toxic plant · deadly nightshade · hemlock · poison ivy · noxious weed
medicinal plantsynthetic drug
Artificially produced psychoactive substance