botanical medicine
- noun
- /bəˈtænɪkəl ˈmɛdɪsɪn/
- Specialized
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medicina botánica
- She decided to study botanical medicine after seeing the benefits of herbal remedies in her community.
Examples
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Incorporating botanical medicine into her wellness routine helped her manage stress naturally.
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Recent research supports the effectiveness of certain botanical medicine in managing chronic pain.
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Many cultures around the world have relied on botanical medicine for centuries to treat various ailments.
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Many people use botanical medicine for natural healing.
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Have you ever tried botanical medicine?
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Many people turn to botanical medicine to alleviate their symptoms and support their overall health.
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The study focused on the effectiveness of various botanical medicines in treating common ailments.
Synonyms
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A way of treating people using plants to prevent or cure illness
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Using plants and their extracts to treat illness and keep people healthy
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A treatment using plants or parts of plants to improve health
A treatment that uses parts of plants to help prevent or treat illness
How Medical
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the use of plants as remedies' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'botanical' (relating to plants) with 'medicine' (treatments). This is a regular compositional noun phrase with an obvious plant-based interpretation that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Botanical medicine comes from the simple image of healing with plants. Imagine a healer picking leaves and roots to make a tea or oil; botanical means 'plants' and medicine means 'healing', so the phrase refers to using plants as 'remedies'.