A botanical is a plant or plant part valued for its medicinal or therapeutic properties, flavor, and/or scent.
Herbs are a subset of botanicals.
Products made from botanicals that are used to maintain or improve health are sometimes called herbal products, botanical products, or phytomedicines..
Herbal medicine, also called botanical medicine or phytomedicine, refers to using a plant's seeds, berries, roots, leaves, bark, or flowers for medicinal purposes.
Herbalism has a long tradition of use outside conventional medicine..
People have used herbs for thousands of years, relying on powdered supplements, teas, tinctures, and skin creams to help treat everything from skin rashes to mild depression.
Herbal supplements, also known as botanicals, are made from the leaves, flowers, roots, and bark of plants.
An herbalist is someone who uses plants for healing.
Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine.
The scope of herbal medicine sometimes include:
We use the term botanical medicine because it includes ,plant parts that are not strictly herbs, such as:
