phytotherapy

phytotherapy
phy·to·ther·a·py .fīt-ō-'ther-ə-pē n, pl -pies the use of vegetable drugs in medicine

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n.
medical treatment based exclusively on plant extracts and products. Plants have provided a wide range of important drugs and current research into drugs from plants continues to be fruitful. Recent examples are the taxane. However, it is essential that any drugs derived directly from plants should be extracted, purified, assayed, and tested before being used as medication. The use of crude plant extracts as medicines can be dangerous because seemingly identical samples of the same plant may contain widely differing amounts of the active ingredient.

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phy·to·ther·a·py (fi″to-therґə-pe) [phyto- + therapy] treatment by use of plants.

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