What is "phytomedicine"

n. (context medicine English) Any medicine of plant origin

Phytomedicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering the fields of phytopharmacology, phytotherapy, and phytotoxicology. The journal was established in 1994. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Alexander Panossian ( Swedish Herbal Institute).

Phytomedicine is the science of illness and damage to plants, the causes thereof, their manifestations, their development, their dissemination, methods for maintaining plant health and also measures used to control plant diseases and their causes. The Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft (German Breeding Association) is the German association of Phytomedicine pactitioners.