Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Herbal medicine.
- noun The study of the use of medicinal herbs around the world.
- noun The business of growing, collecting, and distributing herbal products.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The knowledge of herbs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The knowledge of herbs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The practice or study of
medicinal herbs . - noun obsolete
Botany , the study ofplants in general.
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Examples
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Schizandra berries are highly prized in Chinese herbalism as a tonic for the kidneys, lungs and liver.
Wil's Ebay E-Store 2010
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He can't do otherwise, because he doesn't have the evidence for nearly every other form of CAM / IM other than perhaps herbalism, which is, let's face it, nothing more than the way medicine was practiced 200 years ago, with the use of crude plant extracts as drugs simply because the technology didn't exist to isolate the pure, active ingredients.
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A low level player who chooses a crafting profession and a matching gathering profession to supply it such as herbalism and alchemy will be poor unless they sell some of their gathered materials, as the demand for low level crafted items is non-existant.
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My Oxford American Dictionary has: "any of a range of medical therapies that are not regarded as orthodox by the medical profession, such as herbalism, homeopathy, and acupuncture", which seems pretty accurate.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Tom Morris 2009
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My Oxford American Dictionary has: "any of a range of medical therapies that are not regarded as orthodox by the medical profession, such as herbalism, homeopathy, and acupuncture", which seems pretty accurate.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Tom Morris 2009
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Tara ran her finger down the spine of the wired skeleton of a lizard guarding a shelf of herbalism books.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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Tara ran her finger down the spine of the wired skeleton of a lizard guarding a shelf of herbalism books.
Rogue Oracle 2011
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People that believed in this type of herbalism were obviously in league with the devil and were thus, evil.
Five Things You Might Not Know About Summer Solstice | myFiveBest 2010
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I chose what I was interested in learning, whether it was my graphology phase at age 10, psychology and NLP through from about 11 onwards, or writing, herbalism, photography (the passion that stuck) … basically I was encouraged to run with whatever I liked and see where it led.
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I see this passionate interest in vitamins and supplements in part as an extension of the traditional female-driven world of herbalism.
What Women Want Paco Underhill 2010
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