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Plants, Medicinal

"Plants, Medicinal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Plants whose roots, leaves, seeds, bark, or other constituent parts possess therapeutic, tonic, purgative, curative or other pharmacologic attributes, when administered to man or animals.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Plants, Medicinal" by people in this website by year, and whether "Plants, Medicinal" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 27 publications over 18 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2001
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