medicinal uses
Drug treatment purposes
Medicinal uses are the applications of a substance for treating or preventing illness.
The phrase typically appears in discussions of plants, herbs, or chemicals that have therapeutic properties: The medicinal uses of willow bark date back centuries.
Something valued for its medicinal uses may or may not be approved as formal medicine.
- herbal remedyPlant-derived therapeutic preparation
- echinaceaImmune-support plant extract
- turmericYellow rhizome spice
- ginsengPerennial with tonic root
- antibioticsBacteria-destroying medicines
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medicinal usesrecreational use
Non-professional enjoyment purpose
recreational drug use · getting high · intoxication · partying · pleasure-seeking