A genus in the mint family (LAMIACEAE).
A plant species which is known as an Oriental traditional medicinal plant.
A plant species of the Salvia genus known as a spice and medicinal plant.
A group of DITERPENES cyclized into 3-ring PHENANTHRENES.
A group of DITERPENES cyclized into 2-rings with a side-chain.
Chinese herbal or plant extracts which are used as drugs to treat diseases or promote general well-being. The concept does not include synthesized compounds manufactured in China.
Phenolic benzoic acid esters.
Phenanthrenes are aromatic hydrocarbons consisting of three benzene rings fused together in a linear arrangement, commonly found in various plants and some animals, and can act as precursors for certain steroid hormones or exhibit pharmacological activities with potential therapeutic uses.
The mint plant family. They are characteristically aromatic, and many of them are cultivated for their oils. Most have square stems, opposite leaves, and two-lipped, open-mouthed, tubular corollas (united petals), with five-lobed, bell-like calyxes (united sepals).
Concentrated pharmaceutical preparations of plants obtained by removing active constituents with a suitable solvent, which is evaporated away, and adjusting the residue to a prescribed standard.
Twenty-carbon compounds derived from MEVALONIC ACID or deoxyxylulose phosphate.
Oils which evaporate readily. The volatile oils occur in aromatic plants, to which they give odor and other characteristics. Most volatile oils consist of a mixture of two or more TERPENES or of a mixture of an eleoptene (the more volatile constituent of a volatile oil) with a stearopten (the more solid constituent). The synonym essential oils refers to the essence of a plant, as its perfume or scent, and not to its indispensability.
A plant genus of the family BRASSICACEAE growing in Peru mountains. It is the source of maca root.
Use of plants or herbs to treat diseases or to alleviate pain.