Therapeutic Properties Flashcards by Megan Metcalf

Produce absorption of exudates or diseased tissues.

Absorbents

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Detergents

Abstergents

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Modify nutrition to overcome morbid processes.

Alternatives

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Produce anesthesia or unconsciousness.

Anesthetics

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Restorative herbs or food.

Analeptics

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Used to allay pain

Analgesics

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Used to allay sexual feeling

Anaphrodisiacs

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Allay pain

Anodyne

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Used to neutralize acid in the stomach and intestines.

Antacids

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Used to destroy intestinal worms

Anthelmintics

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Used for the relieving gout

Antiarthritics

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Used for reliving dropsy

Antihydropics

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Used to relieve calculus affections

Antilithics

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Used to relieve malarial fevers

Antiperiodics

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Used for reduction of body temperature in fevers

Antipyretic

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Have the power of preventing putrefactions

Antiseptics

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Relief of nervous irritability and minor spasms

Antispasmodics

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Relief of syphilis

Antisyphilitics

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Power of destroying disease producing organisms

Antizymotics

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Mild purgatives

Aperients

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Increase sexual power and excitement

Aphrodisiacs

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Characterized by fragrant or spicy taste and odor, and stimulant to the gastrointestinal mucous membrane.

Aromatics

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Unite the properties of the aromatics and the simple bitters.

Aromatic Bitters

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Power of influencing vital contractility, thereby condensing tissues.

Astringents

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Have a bitter taste, and have power of stimulating gastrointestinal mucous membrane without affecting the general system.

Bitters, Simple

Remedies which, when locally applied, cause inflammatory exudation of serum from the skin, and are used as revulsants.

Blisters

Used externally to cause a sense or warmth.

Calefacients

Lowers heart's action

Cardiac depressant

Increases heart's action

Cardiac Stimulant

Containing volatile oil, used to excite intestinal peristalsis and provoke an expulsion of flatus.

Carminatives

Purgatives

Cathartics

Used to destroy living tissues

Caustics

Provoke bike flow

Cholagogues

Astringents

Constringents

Cause convulsions

Convulsants

Correct or render more pleasant the action of other remedies, especially purgatives.

Correctives

Corrigents

Mucilaginous principles which are used in solution to soothe and protect irritated mucous membranes or other tissues

Demulcents

Remedies which overcome obstruction; aperients.

Deobstruents

Destroy or hide foul odors

Deodorants

Remove hair

Depilatories

Sedatives

Depressants

Lessen motor activity

Depresso-motors

Act upon the emunctories, to cause excretion, and purify the system.

Depurants

Cleanse wounds, ulcers, etc.

Detergents

Produce sweating

Diaphoretics

Ferments and acids which have the power of aiding in the solution of food.

Digestants

Dilute secretions and excretions

Diluents

Substances that have the power of destroying the noxious properties of decaying organic matter

Disinfectants

Increase secretion of urine

Diuretics

Purgatives which cause much irritation

Drastics

Produce abortion

Ecbolics

Laxatives

Eccoprotics, or Ectoprotics

Cause vomiting

Emetics

Stimulate menstruation

Emmenagogues

Used to mechanically soften and protect tissues.

Emollients

Blisters

Epispastics

Increase nasal secretions

Earrhines

Caustics

Escharotics

Remedies which evacuate; chiefly applies to purgatives.

Evacuate

Stimulants

Excitants

Increase motor activity

Excito-motors

Act upon the pulmonic mucous membrane and increase or alter its secretions.

Expectorants

Dissipate fever

Febrifuges

Increase milk secretion

Galactagogues

Arrest hemorrhages

Hemoststics

Purgatives which cause large watery discharges.

Hydragogues

Cause sleep

Hypnotics

Mild purgatives

Laxatives

When applied locally, destroy sensation.

Local anesthetics

Cause mydriasis, or dilation of pupils.

Mydriatics

Cause myosin, or contraction of the pupil

Myotics

Powerful anodyne, hypnotics.

Narcotics

Act upon the nervous system

Neurotics

Modify the nutritive processes

Nutriants

Substances which nourish

Nutrients

Stimulate uterine contraction, and hasten childbirth.

Oxytocics

Increase peristalsis

Peristaltics

Prevent the taking or development of disease

Prophylactics

Herbs which protect a part when applied to it.

Protectives

Sialagogues

Ptyalagogues

Produce copious discharges from the bowels.

Purgatives

Herbs which, by causing irritation, draw nervous looks from a distant diseased part.

Refrigerants

Cause irritation and redness, and are used as revulsants.

Rubefacients

Lower functional activity

Sedative

Excite the salivary glands to secretion

Sialogogue

Soporifics, cause sleep

Somnifacient

Cause sleep

Soporifics

Cause absorption

Sorbefacients

Have a direct curative influence upon certain individual diseases.

Specifics

Increase functional activity

Stimulants

Stimulants to the stomach

Stomachics

Hemoststics

Styptics

Produce sweating

Sudorifics

Kill tapeworm

Taenicides

Permanently increase the systemic tone by stimulating nutrition.

Tonics

Kill intestinal worms

Vermicides

Cause the expulsion of intestinal worms.

Vermifuges

Blisters

Vesicatories