Category: T

A compact pyramidal panicle.  

Four-pistilled or -styled.  

Tapering gradually to a point.  

An infectious disease caused by the Rickettsia microorganism, characterized by high fever and delirium. One of several fevers caused by the Rickettsia bacterium, transmitted by fleas and lice, producingaa fever, extreme weakness and a dark rash on the skin. The test for typhus is the Weil-Felix reaction. Infection caused by Rickettsia organisms and characterized by…

A parasitic worm of the class Cestoidea; a segmented an ribbon-like flatworm. It develops in the alimentary canals or vertebrates. A metazoan, pathogenic to humans. A parasitic worm with a small head and long body like a ribbon. Tapeworms enter the intestine when a person eats raw meat or fish. The worms attach themselves with…

Tricyclic antidepressant. A drug or chemical that inhibits the enzyme MAO, which in turn prevents the breakdown of the amine neurotransmitters (dopamine, serotonin, and noradrenaline) to boost mood. Refers to a group of chemicals used in treating depression.  

Plant medicines in tablet form can be more concentrated and are often extracted using other methods (such as other solvents or CO2 extraction) and can contain other ingredients such as stabilizers, vitamins and other active plants. Take as instructed. A small, solid dosage form of medication. Most tablets are intended to be swallowed whole, but…

A chemical subdivision of terpenes with a specific number of hydrogen atoms and 30 carbon atoms; found in aromatic components of plants. Steroids are triterpenes.  

This is the triangular basement muscle of the urinary bladder. It differs in structure and nerves form the top of the bladder, the detrusor muscle, which expands as the bladder fills, and contracts during urination under para-sympathetic nerve stimulus. The trigone dose not expand, is under sympathetic nerve stimulus, and supplies the rigidity and sphincter…

That school of medical philosophy and therapy founded by the American messianic nature therapist Samuel Thomson (b. 1769). Thomson’s great axiom was, “Heat is life, and cold is death.” He lived in New England, which explains some of this. He and the later Thomsonians made great use of vomiting, sweating, and purging to achieve these…