Medicinal plant

Authors:Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer, Prof. Dr. med. Martina Bacharach-Buhles

Last updated on: 29.10.2020

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Medicinal plant

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A medicinal plant (or medicinal plant) is defined as a plant that can be used to treat disease because of its content of active ingredients. The term is not very sharply defined and includes "medicinal plants" used in folk medicine as well as those whose extracts have received positive monographs from the various commissions as official phytotherapeutics (see below phytotherapy, regulation of medicinal products).

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020

Authors: Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer Prof. Dr. med. Martina Bacharach-Buhles