Phytotherapy/Related Articles
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Parent articles
- Botany [r]: The study of plants, algae and fungi (mycology). [e]
- Complementary and alternative medicine [r]: Set of therapies and treatments not considered mainstream or scientific. [e]
- Healing arts [r]: The health sciences, forms of complementary and alternative medicine, and traditional practices aimed at curing disease, healing injury and promoting wellness. [e]
- Integrative medicine [r]: Organized health care that involves willing cooperation between mainstream and complementary medicine [e]
- Biologically based health practices [r]: Methods in conventional medicine, complementary and alternative medicine and traditional medicine that share the characteristic that substances used in the practice come from plants or animals [e]
Subtopics
- Digitalis purpurea [r]: Foxglove plant, the source of naturally occurring digitalis glycosides; also a highly ornamental plant that is quite poisonous [e]
- Pelargonium sidoides [r]: Medicinal plant native to South Africa, whose derivative in inexpensive cold and flu medicines of various brands have unproven efficacy. [e] (Umckaloabo)
- Hypericum [r]: Also known as St. John's Wort, an herbal medicine with some clinical studies showing activity, principally in depression [e] (St. John's Wort)
- Saw palmetto [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Valerian [r]: A plant used in phytotherapy for anxiety and insomnia, for which randomized controlled trials have variously shown efficacy or inconclusive results; not used in conventional medicine in the U.S. [e]
Related topics
- Bach flower therapy [r]: A form of complementary medicine that uses remedies based on extracts from flowers, to improve what it terms vibrations, a class of biofields in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine taxonomy [e]
- Digitalis glycosides [r]: A family of alkaloids that are either plant extracts from Digitalis purpurea or synthetic analogues, which improve the pumping ability of the heart, although have a narrow therapeutic index before they become toxic [e]
- Digoxin [r]: The most commonly used synthetic derivative of digitalis glycosides, used clinically to improve the pumping action of the heart [e]
- Opioid analgesic [r]: Synthetic narcotic that has opiate-like activities, which induces analgesia by mimicking endogenous opioids, at opioid receptors in the brain. [e]