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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
herbal medicine
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bloodletting is popular among the doctors and apothecaries, but herbal medicine, witchcraft and spells are rampant in the general population.
▪ The good doctor Guruji treats madness with herbal medicine in a village near Delhi.
▪ The widow, a Quaker, would seem to have been a devotee of herbal medicine and various other quack cures.
▪ They studied herbal medicine as an alternative to the drugs of the medical profession.
Wiktionary
herbal medicine

n. 1 herbalism 2 A herbal drug or similar preparation

WordNet
herbal medicine
  1. n. a medicine made from plants and used to prevent or treat disease or promote health

  2. the use of medicinal herbs to prevent or treat disease or promote health

Usage examples of "herbal medicine".

In herbal medicine, the herbs whose properties alleviate a particular illness or state of mind are taken internally or applied to the physical body externally.

A compound decoction of Broom is recommended in herbal medicine as of much benefit in bladder and kidney affections, as well as in chronic dropsy.

In fact, this form of herbal medicine is still widely used in rural areas of Mexico, Central and South America, and by California Latinos for relief of rheumatism and arthritis pain.

The Garden Lovage is one of the old English herbs that was formerly very generally cultivated, and is still occasionally cultivated as a sweet herb, and for the use in herbal medicine of its root, and to a less degree, the leaves and seeds.

Used in herbal medicine in diarrhoea and as an emmenagogue, the infusion of 1 OZ.

The Red Indians have long used this viscous inner bark to prepare a healing salve, and in herbal medicine a Slippery Elm bark powder is considered one of the best possible poultices for wounds, boils, ulcers, burns and all inflamed surfaces, soothing, healing and reducing pain and inflammation.

In modern Herbal Medicine, the dried herb is more generally now employed, for its astringent and febrifuge properties.

I have always experimented in the innocent alchemy of scent blending and cooking, but it was not until I had written my first book on herbs that the idea came to me to found the Society of Herbalists, and since 1926 I have done nothing else but research work in herbal medicine.

The arrangement reminded Ayla of Iza and Creb, adne the Cave's illnesses with practical herbal medicine, exorcism of spirits and other unknown harmful emana- r mate.

He began to learn something about Indigene herbal medicine, also, and used it to supplement the kind of work he was already doing.

His Apprentices, both in Earth Magick and in herbal medicine, had brought every box, cabinet, and chest to him here.

After she had applied the herbal medicine, she glanced again at the nozzler.

Steve had heard all the arguments against herbal medicine--it was dangerous, it was inaccurate, it was better left to real scientists with real Ph.

Lester would recover if she got the herbal medicine inside him in time.