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Definition of Herbal therapy
1. Noun. The use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet).
Category relationships: Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Generic synonyms: Therapy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herbal Therapy
Literary usage of Herbal therapy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology by Fielding Hudson Garrison (1921)
"... on the treatise of Dioscorides, which is the historic source of most of our
herbal therapy, even of the famous medieval substitutes for anesthesia. ..."
2. Chronicle of Progress by Ibrahim Abed, Paula Casey-Vine, Abdullah Al Jabali (1996)
"... opened the first Islamic medicine and herbal therapy centre in the country.
23 January: Sheikh Zayed, who was visiting Pakistan, held talks with the ..."
3. Critical Needs for Research in Veterinary Science by National Research Council (U. S.) (2005)
"... acupuncture, chiropractic, and herbal therapy). An increasing number of
companion-animal owners and veterinarians are using complementary therapies in a ..."