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• Antidepressant [r]: Mood-stimulating drugs used primarily in the treatment of affective disorders and related conditions. ^[e]
• Antineoplastic agent [r]: Drug that prevents the development, maturation, or spread of neoplastic cells. ^[e]
• Anxiety [r]: A physiological state marked by demonstrable changes in cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. ^[e]
• Bach flower therapy [r]: A form of complementary medicine that uses remedies based on extracts from flowers, to improve what it terms vibrations, a class of biofields in the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine taxonomy ^[e]
• Biologically based health practices [r]: Methods in conventional medicine, complementary and alternative medicine and traditional medicine that share the characteristic that substances used in the practice come from plants or animals ^[e]
• Complementary and alternative medicine [r]: Set of therapies and treatments not considered mainstream or scientific. ^[e]
• Digitalis glycosides [r]: A family of alkaloids that are either plant extracts from Digitalis purpurea or synthetic analogues, which improve the pumping ability of the heart, although have a narrow therapeutic index before they become toxic ^[e]
• Indigenous knowledge system [r]: Set of knowledge, skills and technologies existing and developed around specific conditions of indigenous populations and communities. ^[e]
• Integrative medicine [r]: Organized health care that involves willing cooperation between mainstream and complementary medicine ^[e]
• Michael Savage [r]: (1942–) American conservative commentator on talk radio; columnist, WorldNetDaily; sometimes labeled a "shock jock"; doctorate in phytotherapy and nutritional medicine ^[e]
• Mycology [r]: The branch of microbiology concerned with the study and effects of fungi ^[e]
• Pelargonium sidoides [r]: Medicinal plant native to South Africa, whose derivative in inexpensive cold and flu medicines of various brands have unproven efficacy. ^[e]
• Phytotherapy [r]: The therapeutic use of plants or plant extracts to prevent or treat disease; it is most commonly a form of complementary and alternative medicine, following long culturally-specific traditions such as herbalism. Chemically extracted and concentration-controlled plant-derived substances are used in conventional medicine, but are usually not considered phytotherapy. ^[e]
• Podophyllin [r]: A highly caustic plant extract from Podophyllum peltatum and P. emodi, used as in dermatology, as a violent purgative not recommended in modern medicine, and as a base for creating certain antineoplastic agents. ^[e]
• Traditional Chinese medicine [r]: A system of traditional medicine which is based on the beliefs and practices of the Chinese culture. (Anonymous (2024), Traditional Chinese Medicine (English). Medical Subject Headings. U.S. National Library of Medicine.) ^[e]
• Traditional medicine [r]: Methods of healthcare, not formulated based on scientific models or necessarily having demonstrated efficacy in randomized controlled trials, which still have a long history of safety and presumed efficacy as used in specific cultures ^[e]
• Vitalism [r]: The doctrine that the functioning of a living organism does not result from physical and chemical forces alone. ^[e]
• World Health Organization [r]: United Nations' agency for health, focussing on the control and prevention of diseases, and the support for international health programs. ^[e]