What's the difference between botanical and herbal?

Botanical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to botany; relating to the study of plants; as, a botanical system, arrangement, textbook, expedition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Following a brief historical introduction, current production of commercially important alliums is described and their botanical origins and interrelationships are explained.
  • (2) The results reveal that Tibetan Huanglian and Yunnan Huanglian are different in botanical origin.
  • (3) This paper reviews the clinical and epidemiologic literature and identifies the specific woods (with botanical names) and their respiratory disease correlates, including pulmonary function declines, chronic and acute symptoms, and impaired mucociliary transport.
  • (4) A medico-botanical study was carried out in certain villages of the Bulandshahr district in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the traditional uses of medicinal plants by the rural population for curing human diseases.
  • (5) Because the characterization of grain dusts is incomplete, we are defining the botanical, chemical, and microbial contents of several grain dusts collected from grain elevators in the Duluth-Superior regions of the U.S.
  • (6) Cross sensitizations were found between botanically related as well as between less related species of the trees.
  • (7) For each species listed, the family, the botanical name, the voucher specimen number, the vernacular name, the pharmacological and therapeutical properties are given.
  • (8) The potential for production of fine particulate from botanical trash materials plus lint and linters was determined in the laboratory by an abrasive milling test.
  • (9) Linnaeus planted the seed in the botanical garden of the University of Uppsala...
  • (10) After a nail-biting count, Fahey stood in the Royal Botanic Gardens and proclaimed: “The carnival is over.” O’Farrell won Northcott, which later became Ku-ring-gai.
  • (11) Despite the significant parks like Villa Giulia and the Botanical Gardens in the centre of the city, Palermo is not a very green city.
  • (12) This week the British government, backed by nine of the world's largest environment and science bodies, including the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, the Royal Society, the RSPB and Greenpeace, is expected to signal that the 210,000 sq km area around the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean will become the world's largest marine reserve .
  • (13) Royal Botanic Garden (0131-248 2971), 27 July to 2 October.
  • (14) Specific serum IgE to spices (determined in 41 patients with positive RAST to celery) up to class 3 were seen especially in patients with celery-mugwort or celery-birch-mugwort association, and concerned various botanical families.
  • (15) But to do Hakone justice, find a reasonably priced ryokan and take a couple of days to explore the volcanic geysers of Owakudani, the botanical gardens, the cherry blossom in spring and Hakone shrine on the shore of the lake.
  • (16) It evaluates the "pharmacological wisdom" of the local population, along with their symbolic use of the environment, to show how they construct medicinal plant classifications which follow a folk logic, but often conform as well to modern botanical classifications based on the principles of systematic botany or chemistry.
  • (17) In addition, preliminary results of trials with new experimental therapies, such as botanical and marine lipids, interferon-gamma, and monoclonal antibodies directed against leukocyte cell surface markers are discussed.
  • (18) He was a botanical collector, a philanthropist, and an active member of the Society of Friends.
  • (19) According to original botanical statistics, there are 42 species and 5 varieties belonging to 20 families called or used as Touguchao.
  • (20) The quantities of protein which can be extracted from green plants depend on a number of factors such as the botanical composition of the plant, its growth stage, topdressing and system of extraction.

Herbal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to herbs.
  • (n.) A book containing the names and descriptions of plants.
  • (n.) A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved; a hortus siccus; an herbarium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a single letter in February 2005, Charles urged a badger cull to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis – damning opponents to the cull as “intellectually dishonest”; lobbied for his preferred person to be appointed to crack down on the mistreatment of farmers by supermarkets; proposed his own aide to brief Downing Street on the design of new hospitals; and urged Blair to tackle an EU directive limiting the use of herbal alternative medicines in the UK.
  • (2) While interest in herbal therapy is clearly increasing in Western countries, there are few available data about hepatotoxicity of herbal remedies.
  • (3) (2) Controlling infection was the key point, effective antibiotics and hormone should be added besides these herbal medicines for clearing away heat and toxic materials.
  • (4) The rich ethnopharmacological descriptions in the ancient books of herbal remedy and those scattered in the folklore medicine contribute the possibility of this approach.
  • (5) The home secretary, Theresa May , has defied her own expert advisers and banned qat, a mild herbal stimulant that is traditionally used by Britain's Somali, Yemeni and Ethiopian communities.
  • (6) Twenty-seven patients with malignant lymphoma (14 Hodgkin's disease, 9 histiocytosarcoma, 2 plasmacytoma, 2 lympholeucosarcoma) were treated by Ailin-injection plus Chinese herbal medicine.
  • (7) The inhibitory effects of a prescription of herbal medicine, tentatively named P-3, were studied pathologically in an experimental model of the glomerular lesion induced by purified snake Agkistrodon acutus venom proteinase (Ac1-P) in mice.
  • (8) The legal status for herbal remedies is defined by the Drug Law of 24 August 1976 in the version of the forth law amending of April 1990.
  • (9) The authors' traditional Chinese herbal prescription, Qiang Zhuang Ling, was used to treat childhood anorexia with Spleen deficiency.
  • (10) To conclude, the lack of legislative control in Hong Kong over Chinese herbal medicines is highlighted.
  • (11) In the case of some of the test parameters, a positive tendency in favor of the herbal ointment was observed.
  • (12) Anti-EBV antibody titers were elevated in herbal medicine users compared to nonusers among cases but not among control subjects.
  • (13) She was also a practitioner of herbal medicine, producing remedies on request for doctors at the local hospital.
  • (14) Factors contributing to fatal outcome included inadequate dose of antivenom (15 cases), misidentification of the snake leading to use of the wrong antivenom (12), problems associated with mechanical ventilation (10), and delayed arrival in hospital after traditional (herbal) treatment (10).
  • (15) Twenty-six herbal preparations made from 24 medicinal herbs, categorized as antipyretics in Chinese materia medica, were tested in vitro to determine their effects upon phagocytosis of 32P-labelled Staphylococcus aureus by neutrophils isolated from bovine blood and milk.
  • (16) An ancient system of natural medicine--Maharishi Ayur-Vedic--prescribes certain herbal formulas to enhance cognitive functioning, prevent illness, and alleviate the detrimental effects of the aging process.
  • (17) Naive boy from the country moves to the big city and things go wrong.” We are drinking herbal tea and eating (very tasty) vegetables in Moby’s newly opened vegan restaurant in blue-skied Los Angeles.
  • (18) He had recently returned from a trip to India where he had been taking two different herbal tonics.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Herbal tinctures by Duchy Originals, the Prince of Wales’s company.
  • (20) A concentration series, (0.005 to 10% solution in saline), of various potential irritants (phosphate detergent, baby shampoo, liquid chlorine bleach, herbal shampoo, onion juice, SDS, and sodium chloride) was applied directly to the cornea of the anesthetized rabbit.

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