Category: C
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Cross (verb)
To fertilize an ovary with pollen from a plant belonging to a different species.
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Carrion
The dead body of an animal.
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Carnivorous
Using animals for food. Plants that trap animals and derive some or most of their minerals from digesting them. Trapping animals and deriving some or most of the nutrients for the plant by digesting them. In biology and zoology, feeding upon other animals.
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Cream
A mixture of water with fat or oil that blends with the skin. (Colour) white with a faint tinge of yellow. To make soft, smooth and creamy by rubbing with back of spoon or by beating with mixer; usually applied to fat and sugar. Any fluid mix that is very thick. Creams are often used…
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Counter-irritant
Irritant to the skin used to relieve more deep-seated pain or discomfort. An agent producing counter-irritation, so that less pain at a particular site is experienced. Applications to the skin that relieve deep-seated pain usually applied in the form of heat. An irritant used to relieve another irritation. It is usually an agent applied to…
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Compress
A cloth pad soaked in hot or cold herbal extract and applied firmly to the skin. Compress is a pad of bruised plant material applied directly to the skin for pain and wound healing. A lint or substance applied hot or cold to an area of the body for relief of swelling and pain or…
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CITES
Convention on International Trade and Endangered Species.
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Circulatory stimulant
Stimulates blood flow, usually to a given area, e.g. hands and feet.
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Cun section
The first portion of the pulse that is felt with the practitioner’s index finger, which indicates Heart on the left wrist, Lung on the right wrist, and their related Fu organs.
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Cold and Heat
Two of the Eight Principles. When using the Eight Principles to diagnose a patient, a disease is classified as being a “heat” disease or a “cold” disease. This is determined by evaluating characteristics of the tongue and pulse, bowel habits, urination, body temperature, and fatigue/energy level, among other factors.