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“A” to “Z” Therapeutic Properties & Flower Remedies
Generated on 9/18/2008
Updated on 2/18/2009
Updated on 2/22/23
As all of you know I am done working on my Master Herbalist degree and moving on to my Doctor of Naturopath (ND). As I'm working along it seem to me that I was always looking up words to understand this foreign language, lol, so I decide to bring this to you, now all of us can understand together.
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If you find a word that is not in this document please email the word to me at melody@melodyanns.com I will be happy to add it.
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– Fat-soluble – Capable of dissolving in the same organic solvents as fats and oils.
– Fatigue – Fatigue refers to a common mental or physical state of extreme tiredness and lack of energy.
– Fatty acid – Any one of many organic acids from which fats and oils are made. Organic compound whose carbon chain ends in a carboxyl group.
– Fauces – The throat, from the mouth to the pharynx.
– FBS – Fasting blood sugar. The level of glucose present if a blood sample drawn at least eight hours after the last meal.
– Febrifuge – Reduces fever. Substance that relieves or reduces fever.
– Febrifuges – Herbs which dissipate fever. (See antipyretic)
– Feces – Digestive waster products
– Feedback inhibition – Mechanism that maintains constant secretion of a product by exerting inhibitory control.
– Fern – Nonflowering, vascular plant having roots, stems, and fronds and reproducing by spores instead of seeds.
– Fever – Rise in body temperature above normal 98.6 degrees. (Return to Pyrexia)
– Fiber – The indigestible portion of plant matter. Fiber is an important component of a healthy diet because it is capable of binding to toxins and escorting them out of the body.
– Fibrillation – Rapid, uncontrolled irregular twitching of heart muscle.
– Fibroblastic – Pertaining to fibroblasts, or connective tissue cells.
– Fibrocystic changes – Formation of benign cysts of various sizes in the breast.
– Fibrosis – Thickening and scarring of connective tissue due to injury or inflammation.
– First-degree burn – Reddening of the outer layer of skin.
– First pass effect – The biotransformation and/or excretion of a drug by hepatic, including biliary, mechanisms following absorption of the drug from the gastrointestinal tract, before the drug gains access to the systemic circulation.
– Fissure – Crack in membrane lining.
– Fistula – Abnormal tube like passage from a normal cavity or tube to a free surface or to another cavity. Abnormal passage that leads from an abscess or cavity to the skin or to another abscess or cavity, caused by disease or injury.
– Fixative – a material that slows down the rate of evaporation of the more volatile components in a perfume composition.
– Fixed oil – A name given to vegetable oils obtained from plants that, in contradistinction to essential oils, are fatty, dense, and nonvolatile, such as olive and sweet almond oils.
– Flatulence – Gas. Excessive amounts of gas in the stomach or other parts of the digestive tract. Expulsion of intestinal gas through mouth by belching or through anus by passing flatus.
– Flatus – Intestinal gas produced by bacterial action on waste matter in the intestines and composed primarily of hydrogen sulfide and varying amounts of methane. Also called gas. (Return to Flatulence).
– Flavonoid – Any of a large group of crystalline compounds found in plants. Also called bioflavonoid. Plant pigment that exerts a wide variety of physiological effects in the human body.
– Floret – Small flower; one of a number of individual flowers comprising the head of a composite plant.
– Flowering plant – Any angiosperm that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds in an enclosed ovary.
– Flower Remedies – An average dose of the flower remedies is 4 drops under the tongue 4 times a day. The liquid should be held in the mouth so that it can enter the bloodstream through the saliva glands. The flower remedies are prepared from highly potent, vital seed bearing, non-poisonous, flowers. The remedies are simple to prepare using pure water, sunlight, fresh blossoms, & a clean glass bowl. – Flu –
– Foliage – Leaves of plant or tree.
– Follicle – Saclike structure that forms inside an ovary when an egg is produced.
– Free radical – An Atom or group of atoms that is highly chemically reactive because it has at least one unpaired electron. Because they join so readily with other compounds, free radicals can attack cells and can cause a lot of damage in the body. Free radicals form in heated fats and oils, and as a result of exposure to atmospheric radiation and environmental pollutants, among other things.
– Free radical scavenger – A substance that removes or destroys free radicals.
– Frond – Fern or palm foliage.
– Fructose – Yellowish to white, crystalline, water-soluble sugar found in many fruits.
– Fruit – Mature ovary of a flowering plant, sometimes edible.
– Functional cyst – A benign cyst that forms on an ovary and usually resolves on its own without treatment.
– Fungi – The fungi are a monophyletic group, also called the Eumycota (“true fungi” or eumycetes), that is phylogenetically distinct from the morphologically similar slime molds (myxomycetes) and water molds (oomycetes). (Return to Dermatomycoses)
– Fungicidal – Prevents and combats fungal infection.
– Fungus – One of a class of organisms that includes yeasts, mold, and mushrooms. A number of fungal species, such as Candida albicans, are capable of causing severe disease in immunocompromised hosts. Unicellular or filamentous organism, formerly classified with plants. Any of a group of spore-producing organisms feeding on organic matter, including molds, yeast, mushrooms, and toadstools.
– Furuncle – Boil.
– Furunculosis –A systematic condition characterized by the repeated formation of boils.
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