Glossary

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  • Antitumor

    Preventing or effective against tumors (cancers). Refers to tumor growth-inhibiting properties, usually referred to in connection with cancer. A substance that is effective in opposing or inhibiting the development of tumors. This type of agent plays a crucial role in cancer prevention and treatment, as it targets the processes that lead to the formation and…

  • Anticandidal

    An agent that inhibits or kills candida fungi, most often Canclicla albicans.  

  • Antianginal

    A medicine used to lessen or treat angina. Drugs that relieve or prevent the chest pain associated with angina pectoris. An antianginal increases the oxygen supply to the heart muscle. Preventing or relieving angina pectoris. Preventing or easing angina, which is a substance that helps prevent or relieve spasmodic, constricting, or suffocating chest pain that…

  • Axillary flower

    A flower in the axil of a bract or a leaf.  

  • Angiosperms

    Angiosperms

    They are flowering plants with seeds enclosed inside fruits. Flowering plants that produce flowers, and seeds within a fruit. Seeds develop within an ovary that becomes all or part of the fruit.  

  • Atopic

    A type of inherited allergic response involving elevated immunoglobulin E. Sometimes called a reagin response, it means that you have hay fuver, bronchial asthma, or skin problems like urticaria or eczema. It can be acquired, sometimes after hepatitis or extended contact with solvents or alcohol, but if your mama sneezed and your daddy itched, you…

  • Antiphlogistine

    An agent that limits or decreases inflammation; an anti-inflammatory or antihistamine. A patented product, typically in the form of a poultice, designed to provide comfort and alleviate pain in muscles and joints. It resembles a kaolin poultice, which contains china clay or kaolin and a blend of various essential oils.  

  • Aerial

    The parts of plants growing aboveground.  

  • Adrenal cortex

    The outer covering of the adrenal glands, the two triangular endocrine glands that rest atop the kidneys. Formed in fetal development from the same tissue that becomes the gonads, the adrenal cortex secretes a number of steroid hormones that regulate carbohydrate use, salt balance, reproductive function, anabolism, catabolism, and inflammation. In Chinese Medicine these functions…

  • Apothecary

    An old term for a person who prepares and sells medicines. A druggist or pharmacist. A druggist or pharmacist. In England and Ireland, one licensed by the Society of Apothecaries of London or the Apothecaries’ Hall of Ireland as an authorized physician and dispenser of drugs.