Adaptogen - Adaptogenic or hormonal modulating actions increase the body’s resistance and endurance to a wide variety of adverse influences from physical, chemical and biological stress, assisting the body’s ability to cope and adapt. Adaptogens are non-toxic and possess normalising actions.
Alterative - Herbs that have this property gradually restore health and vitality to the body. They have been referred to as blood cleaners. They help the body assimilate nutrients, eliminate metabolic wastes and restore proper function. Alterative herbs are used to help treat infection, blood toxicity, skin eruptions, impotence and chronic degenerative conditions.
Analgesic - A herb that relieves pain.
Anodyne - Pain-easing.
Anthelmintic - Destroy or expel worms from the digestive tract.
Anti-allergic - Preventing reaction to allergy.
Anti-bacterial - A herb that kills bacteria or inhibits their growth or replication.
Anti-bilious - These herbs help remove excess bile from the system and help relieve biliary conditions or jaundice in the body.
Anti-catarrhal - These herbs eliminate or counteract the build-up of excess mucus and catarrhal build-up from sinus or other upper respiratory parts.
Anti-convulsant Pertaining to a herb that prevents or reduces the severity of convulsive seizures.
Anti-depressive - An herb that relieves depression.
Anti-diarrhoeal - An agent that relieves diarrhoea.
Anti-emetic - These herbs lessen nausea and help relieve or prevent vomiting.
Anti-infective - A substance that inhibits infection.
Anti-inflammatory - Moderate inflammation is the body’s appropriate reaction to infection, injury or irritation, resulting in enhanced tissue repair and containment of invaders, but anti-inflammatory herbs are used to combat extensive or too painful occurrence of inflammation.
Anti-microbial - These herbs help the body’s immune system destroy or resist pathogenic micro-organisms.
Anti-oxidant - A herb that inhibits or retards oxidation.
Anti-periodic - Preventing the return of those diseases, which recur.
Anti-pruritic - A herb that tends to relieve itching.
Anti-pyretic - A herb that reduces fever.
Anti-tussive - A herb that helps to suppress a cough reflex.
Anti-viral - A herb that is destructive to viruses.
Antiseptic - Preventing putrefaction.
Aperient - Producing a natural movement of the bowel.
Aromatic - Having an aroma.
Astringent - Binding. Causing contraction of the tissues.
Bactericidal and Bacteriostatic - Destructive to bacteria.
Bitter - These herbs stimulate the secretion of digestive juices benefiting the digestive process. They stimulate the activity of the liver and pancreas, aiding the elimination of toxins.
Cardiatonic - Product, which has effect upon the heart.
Carminative - This action excites intestinal peristalsis, promotes the expulsion of gas, soothes the stomach promoting digestion and relieves griping (severe cramping pain) in the gastro-intestinal tract.
Cholagogue - Producing a flow of bile.
Demulcent - This action relaxes and soothes the tissue of the digestive tract upon direct contact, and triggers reflex mechanisms that travel through the spinal nerves effectively reducing inflammation and irritation in the respiratory and urinary systems.
Deobstruent - Clearing away obstructions by opening the natural passages of the body.
Depurative - A purifying agent.
Dermatological agent - Applied to herbs with an agent on the skin.
Detergent - Cleansing.
Diaphoretic - Fever is a very appropriate defence response of the body for dealing with infection. This acts to increase sweat bringing the heat and inflammation outward to the surface of the skin, cooling the skin by evaporation of the sweat and concurrently facilitating the excretion of waste matter. These herbs induce increased perspiration, dilate capillaries and increase elimination through the skin.
Diuretic - These herbs increase the elimination and regulates the flow of urine. For best results, drink lots of pure water while using diuretics.
Dysmenorrhoea - Pain associated with menstruation.
Emmenagogue - Applied to herbs, which have the power of exciting the menstrual discharge.
Emollient - Used in relation to substances, which have a softening and soothing effect.
Expectorant - Promoting expectoration and removing secretions from the bronchial tubes.
Haemostatic - Herbs used to control bleeding.
Hepatoprotective - These herbs strengthen and tone the liver, stimulating its secretive function, and causing an increase in the flow of bile.
Hypotensive - These herbs reduce elevated blood pressure.
Hypnotic - Producing sleep.
Immunostimulant - Herbs that stimulate the defence function of the body to produce antibodies to destroy invading antigens.
Laxative - A gentle bowel stimulant.
Nervine - Applied to herbs used to restore the nerves to their natural state.
Nutritive - Nourishing, promoting growth and repair.
Pectoral - These herbs have a general strengthening and healing effect on the entire respiratory system.
Purgative - Herbs, which evacuate the bowels. More drastic than a laxative or aperient.
Sedative - These herbs calm the nervous system by lowering the functional activity of an organ, or by reducing stress and nervous irritation throughout the body.
Spasmolytic - Preventing or curing spasms.
Stimulant - These herbs warm the body, quicken the circulation, break up obstruction and congestion and increase energy.
Stomachic - Applied to herbs given for disorders of the stomach.
Styptic - Substances, which clot the blood and thus stop bleeding.
Tonic - Substances, which give tone to the body producing a feeling of wellbeing.
Vasodilator - These herbs expand blood vessels allowing increased circulation.
Vermifuga - Substances, which expel worms from the body.
Vulnerary - Used in healing wounds. |
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