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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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– Narcotic – Depresses central nervous system, thus relieving pain and promoting sleep. A substance that induces sleep; intoxicating or poisonous in large doses.
– Narcotics – Powerful anodyne, hypnotics.
– Nascent – A term applied to gaseous substances at the moment they are formed in a chemical reaction, or liberated from a solution. Being born; coming into existence; beginning to develop.
– Natural immunity – Inborn lack of susceptibility to a specific disease.
– Natural killer cells (NK cells) – Large immune system cells that attack and destroy infected and cancer-causing cells.
– Nature killer cells – See Killer T cells
– Naturopathy – A form of health care that uses diet, herbs, and other natural methods and substances to cure illness. The goal is to produce a healthy body state without the use of drugs by stimulating innate defenses. Treatment of disease that employs no surgery or synthetic drugs.
– Nausea – Feeling that one is about to vomit.
– Necrosis – Localized tissue death. Death of cells in an organ or tissue.
– Nectary – Organ of a plant that secretes nectar.
– Neoplasia – Tumor formation, characterized by a progressive, abnormal replication of cells.
– Neoplasm – New tumor caused by uncontrolled reproduction of abnormal cells.
– Nephritis – Inflammation of the kidney. Inflammation of the kidney; Bright's disease.
– Nephrotoxic – Poisonous to the kidneys.
– Nervine – A substance that calms nervous tension. Strengthens functional activity of nervous system; may be stimulants or sedatives. Relaxants that ease anxiety and tension by soothing both body and mind.
– Nervous system – Sympathetic and Parasympathetic.
Nervous system (Autonomic) – A division of the nervous system responsible for involuntary, visceral (“gut”) responses to one's environment. The autonomic nervous system is further divided into two separate nervous systems that extend the length of the spinal cord, and control an integrated chain of bodily actions and reactions.
Nervous system (Sympathetic) – The division of the autonomic nervous system that acts as sort of “red alert” system that goes into action when one is faced with an emergency situation. If the sympathetic nervous system is stimulated (or, conversely, if the parasympathetic nervous system is depressed), the heart beats faster and the blood pressure rises. The blood that is near the skin or in the stomach area rushes to the muscle tissues, thus individual may become pale due to the blood leaving the skin area, but this means there will be less blood loss if physical injury is sustained. Digestion is greatly slowed or stopped altogether, as the body gathers all of its resources for the crisis of the moment. The sympathetic nervous system was intended to help one cope with infrequent, emergency situations. However, the tensions in chronic high blood pressure, nervousness, and other adverse health problems.
Nervous System (Parasympathetic) – The division of the autonomic nervous system that goes into action when the body is faced with a nonemergency situation (for instance, the digestion of a meal). Essentially, it does the opposite of the sympathetic nervous system. The two systems are reciprocally innervated, and respond to one another. For instance, if the sympathetic nervous system stimulates the heart too much, the parasympathetic nervous system will respond by slowing it down. The parasympathetic nervous system is somewhat more selective and specialized than its counterpart. Unlike the sympathetic nervous, it is quite capable of stimulating only one or gland at a time, without affecting the tear ducts when one is sad or distraught, without producing any other physiological effects.
– Neuralgia – A stabbing pain along a nerve pathway.
– Neurasthenia – Serve nerve weakness; nervous exhaustion.
– Neuritis – Inflammation of nerves; neuropathy.
– Neurodermatitis – Inflammation of skin with itching that is associated with emotional disturbance.
– Neuron – Functional unit of a nerve, including cell body, axon, and dendrites.
– Neuropathy – A complex of symptoms caused by abnormalities in motor or sensory nerves. Symptoms may include tingling or numbness, especially in the hands or feet, followed by gradual, progressive muscular weakness. Any abnormal, degenerative or inflammatory state of the peripheral nervous system.
– Neurotics – Herbs which act upon the nervous system.
– Neurotransmitter – A chemical that transmits nerve impulses from one nerve cell to another. Major neurotransmitters include acetylcholine, dopamine, Gamma-aminobutyric acid, Norepinephrine, and serotonin. A substance that modifies or transmits nerve impulses. (Return to Catecholamines).
– Neutropenia – A low number of neutrophils in the blood.
– Nitric oxide (NO) – A potent vasodilator released by endothelial cells to signal smooth muscle cells to relax.
– NK cells – See Natural killer cells.
– Nocturia – The disturbance of a person's sleep at night by the need to pass urine.
– Nonvascular – Plant bryophyte nut dry,, single-seeded fruit of various trees and shrubs consisting of kernel enclosed in hard or tough shell.
– Norepinephrine – (Return to Catecholamines). As a stress hormone, norepinephrine affects parts of the brain where attention and responding actions are controlled. Along with epinephrine, norepinephrine also underlies the fight-or-flight response, directly increasing heart rate, triggering the release of glucose from energy stores, and increasing blood flow to skeletal muscle.
– Nucleic acid – Any of a class of chemical compounds found in all viruses and plant and animal cells. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which contain the genetic instructions for every living cell, are two principal types.
– Nutraceutical – A food- or nutrient—based product or supplement designed and/or used for a specific clinical and/or therapeutic purpose.
– Nutriants – Herbs which modify the nutritive processes.
– Nutrient – A substance that is needed by the body to maintain life and health.
– Nutrients – Substances which nourish.
– Nutritive – Increases weight and density; nourishes the body.
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