What's the difference between herbal and pharmacopoeia?
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.
Pharmacopoeia
Definition:
(n.) A book or treatise describing the drugs, preparations, etc., used in medicine; especially, one that is issued by official authority and considered as an authoritative standard.
(n.) A chemical laboratory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
(2) Instead of fixed sterilization parameters, the new second Pharmacopoeia of the German Democratic Republic (1976 seqq.)
(3) Cholecalciferol Reference Standard (Control 871) for the Japanese Pharmacopoeia was prepared.
(4) Besides the usual control tests recommended by the Romanian Pharmacopoeia, the contamination of the hGH for clinical use with acute and slow viruses, was investigated taking into account the withdrawal of this hormone in many developed countries.
(5) The analytical method employed was the United States Pharmacopoeia XXI colorimetric procedure.
(6) Commercial formulations were analyzed and the results obtained by the proposed method closely agreed with those found by the British Pharmacopoeia method.
(7) The results were, therefore, regarded as a tool to define the upper limits of acceptance for human albumins corresponding to the quality prescribed by the European Pharmacopoeia.
(8) The phthalidyl ester of ampicillin [talampicillin (British Pharmacopoeia approved name), BRL 8988] was selected for extended studies.
(9) The data presented here form the experimental basis for the test controlling the composition of gentamicin sulphate in the British Pharmacopoeia 1973: Addendum 1975, and for the introduction into the British Pharmacopoeia of nmr spectrometry as an analytical technique.
(10) Heparin Sodium Reference Standard for Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP) is replaced with new material derived from porcine mucosa.
(11) On the basis of the above results, this material was authorized as the Japanese Pharmacopoeia Standard (Control 881).
(12) Based on the above results, the raw material was authorized as the Japanese Pharmacopoeia Standard (Control 911).
(13) In general, the procedures described in a national or European Pharmacopoeia must be applied if a monograph is available.
(14) In view of the effects they have on public health should we incorporate them into the pharmacopoeia in the same forms as the human drugs?
(15) The assay methods used in this study were those described in the United States Pharmacopeia XXI Ed and British Pharmacopoeia 1980, Addendum 1983.
(16) In accordance with the Pharmacopoeia of the GDR, from multiple-dose containers containing injection preparations with preservatives added such preparations may be repeatedly withdrawn up to 72 h after opening these containers.
(17) Twelve medicinal drugs have been identified by chemical investigations and are presented in one table with the vernacular names (in Dari, Pasto and Kati); the origins and the therapeutical uses are listed in another table with their cultural background in pre-Islamic (Greek and Indian medicines) and Islamic pharmacopoeia (Afghano-Persian and Arabian medicines).
(18) An ointment prepared from fat (sheabutter) obtainable from an indigenous (African) fruit released medicaments faster than either of the two ointment bases recommended by the British Pharmacopoeia.
(19) Levels of accuracy and precision acceptable for the requirements of the British Pharmacopoeia are obtained by combining the results of 3 to 4 assays of a heparin preparation.
(20) In a pharmaceutical form also containing carbromal, meprobamate could not be quantified selectively by classical methods described in pharmacopoeias due to a significant interference from carbromal.