#phytotherapy

• Antonigă — A regional popular name used in traditional Romanian botany to designate a medicinal herbaceous plant (often associated with St. John's wort or related species from the genus Hypericum or other healing herbs structurally linked to spontaneous flora). This archaic phytonym reflects rural ethno-botany, where therapeutic properties, petal shapes, or blooming periods near Christian feasts dictated plant naming in local communities.
• Anthracotherapy — A therapeutic method or traditional medical treatment based on the utilization of standardized extracts from plants rich in anthracenic derivatives and glycosides (such as buckthorn or senna) for regulating intestinal transit; it can also describe the controlled clinical use of activated charcoal in cases of severe poisoning. This structural physiological process stimulates colon motility and reduces fluid absorption, being applied strictly according to medical schedules to prevent electrolyte imbalances.
• Apiphytotherapy — A holistic therapeutic method based on the association and combined use of bee products (honey, propolis, royal jelly, pollen) with medicinal plant extracts (phytotherapy) for preventing, alleviating, or treating various medical conditions.
• Apozem — A liquid pharmaceutical form, represented by a sweetened and highly concentrated infusion or decoction of medicinal plants, administered for therapeutic purposes. Unlike classic herbal teas, an apozem has a higher density of active ingredients due to prolonged boiling or maceration, traditionally used as a magistral remedy in phytotherapy.
• Arnica — A genus of perennial herbaceous plants in the family Asteraceae, comprising around 30 species native to temperate regions. The type species, Arnica montana, is highly valued in phytotherapy for its anti-inflammatory and analgesic extracts.
• Arnica montana — The scientific name of the type species of the genus Arnica, a perennial herbaceous plant native to European mountainous regions, commonly known as mountain arnica. Highly valued worldwide in phytotherapy, its golden-yellow flower heads are rich in sesquiterpene lactones (especially henelalin), utilized exclusively externally for anti-inflammatory and analgesic treatments of bruises and muscle strains.
• Astragalus — A gigantic genus of herbaceous plants or small shrubs in the Fabaceae family, comprising over 3000 species distributed primarily throughout the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Many species hold major structural importance in ecosystems, and the roots of some (such as Astragalus membranaceus) have been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine as immunostimulants, general tonics, and antioxidants, due to their high content of polysaccharides, saponins, and flavonoids.
• Astragalus glycyphyllus — A robust species of herbaceous perennial plant in the Astragalus genus, Fabaceae family, commonly known as wild liquorice or liquorice milkvetch, native to Europe and Asia Minor. It is structurally characterized by long, prostrate, and branched stems, large pinnate leaves with oval leaflets, and axillary racemes of greenish-yellow flowers, traditionally used in folk medicine for its diuretic, emollient, and hypotensive properties due to its sweetish taste resembling true liquorice.
• Restharrow — Popular Romanian compound name attributed to certain herbaceous plant species from the genus Ononis (resharrow) or ferns, characterized by glandular secreting hairs or a damp, sticky appearance of the leaves. In empirical folk medicine, the roots and stalks of this plant were used in infusions to treat renal ailments and stimulate diuresis.