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Definition of Materia medica

Materia medica
Materia medica Ma*te"ri*a med"i*ca [L. See Matter, and Medical.] 1. Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine. 2. That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.

Meaning of Materia medica from wikipedia

- Materia medica (lit.: 'medical material/substance') is a Latin term from the history of pharmacy for the body of collected knowledge about the therapeutic...
- De materia medica (Latin name for the Gr**** work Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, Peri hulēs iatrikēs, both meaning "On Medical Material") is a pharmacopoeia of medicinal...
- 1805, and a second collection of 65 preparations appeared in his book, Materia Medica Pura (1810). As Hahnemann believed that large doses of drugs that caused...
- was a Gr**** physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of De materia medica (in the original Ancient Gr****: Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, Peri hulēs iatrikēs...
- The Bencao gangmu, known in English as the Compendium of Materia Medica or Great Pharmacopoeia, is an encyclopedic gathering of medicine, natural history...
- Eclectic Materia Medica is a materia medica written[when?] by the eclectic medicine doctor Harvey Wickes Felter (co-author with John Uri Lloyd of King's...
- poisonous plants to farmers. His Shénnóng Běn Cǎo Jīng (神農本草經, Shennong's Materia Medica) is considered as the oldest book on Chinese herbal medicine. It classifies...
- metaphysical philosophy Prima Materia is, according to alchemists, the alleged primitive formless base of all matter Materia medica, a Latin medical term for...
- Neijing (The Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor), and Compendium of Materia Medica, a sixteenth-century encyclopedic work, and includes various forms of...
- use of human faeces in his 1596 book Bencao Gangmu (or Compendium of Materia Medica): Men excrete faeces. The odour is bitter and unpleasant, but not toxic...